A young Irish artist influenced by Mac Miller and Frank Ocean, Daire Patel combines a hip-hop feel with a lo-fi bedroom pop sound. Of his three 2019 tracks, his Christmas Day release 'Hold Me Down' became a sleeper hit thanks to word of mouth and playlists on both sides of the Atlantic. 2020 kicked off with the exquisite ‘Sirens’, immediately appearing on a selection of influential playlists and enjoying radio play on RTE and BBC, as well as being placed on the acclaimed Irish drama shows ‘Kin’ and 'Smother'. In the latter part of the year he was invited to take part in RTE's Illuminations project, a cultural responses to world events, to which he contributed his collaboration with producer 1000 Beasts 'Summer In The City'.
2021 saw him play online shows for Music Town and Eye On The Edge festivals, before entering the studio with producer Silent Ghost to begin work on his debut tape Pretty Sweet, the first results to be found in the single ‘Blue’. Live shows alongside the likes of Negro Impacto, Bobbi Arlo, Tebi Rex, Ahmed With Love and Rory Sweeney followed, before his debut EP Pretty Sweet arrived in November 2022 - proceeded by the title track and the Olive Hatake produced ‘Way That You Are’. Working with a variety of producers across the genres, Daire will release new music across the summer and autumn of 2023.
