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Orville Peck
It’d be no small understatement to call this year an artistic renaissance for Orville Peck, the trailblazing country performer who has spent the last 11 months soaring to new creative heights. After 2024’s beloved collaboration album, Stampede-which featured such icons as Willie Nelson, Kylie Minogue, Elton John, and more-the masked singer took on an entirely new challenge: Broadway. In his mesmerizing, layered debut as the Emcee in Cabaret, Peck won legions of new fans and critical acclaim in kind during his 128-show run in the celebrated production.
Uprooting his life from California to New York City for nearly half a year, the Pony and Bronco singer-songwriter found newfound musical, lyrical inspiration wherever he turned. “I was trying to challenge myself with being more vulnerable with songwriting, and I think that experience felt so insanely vulnerable for me,” he says of the doors Cabaret unlocked. “Obviously I was performing without my mask, which was so new for me, but the nature of the material being so heavy-with me going in really wanting to do a good job-pushed me to even more new levels of vulnerability.”