Vincent (Instagram) left his home of Lebanon three years ago, taking a bet that maybe his place in the world might lie elsewhere. At twenty, London took him and he began pursuing a Master’s in songwriting. This leap demanded not just talent but faith, the kind that measures one’s devotion against the weight of the unknown and still takes the decision to step forward.
Now, at twenty-three, after three years marinating in London, Vincent stands at a crossroads of sound and self: three languages intertwined, pop colliding with rock, a patchwork of influences that seem to both ground him yet pull him in many directions.
Navigating London with its backstreets and hidden folds, Vincent, like many, feels inclined to carry his Lebanese identity as an anchor amid the city’s shifting, sometimes dissolving, sense of self. Through his music and its visuals, he works to imbue his music with a sense of wonder and whimsy, something that resists the city’s hardness.
VV, Vincent’s 10th single, arrived October 10th, his birthday. And it seems to come after a long season of reckoning, of confronting his shadows, dismantling doubts and beginning to trust and see the real value in himself. The track reflects his own brand of intimacy. It feels both personal and expansive, like it’s charting a quiet arc of self-actualization. And if we can borrow from astrology for a moment, it’s an unmistakably Libra-inspired passage through darkness toward balance. Libra, ever the keeper of the scales, seeks harmony even in chaos and there’s something of that in Vincent’s approach. As he tells YUNG, “Even in the face of darkness, the light must keep shining.” Without shadow, there’s no shape for light to take. The song carries that tension, building from fragility to a steady, radiant conviction.
“I wrote VV to remind myself never to dim my light again. It’s for people like myself who sometimes need to be reminded of the stars they possess within them. And to always keep them burning bright,” he says.
His music, a trilingual constellation of pop and fusion, belongs distinctly to him, but the journey it traces is shared by many. We all move through nights that feel endless, searching for that inner radiance, that return to self. In that way, Vincent’s story, and his sound, circle back to something essential: the simple, stubborn act of becoming whole again.
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