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Singer-songwriter Sombr debuted on Saturday Night Live<\/em> with two hits from I Barely Know Her<\/a><\/em>, his debut album that he released in August.<\/p>\n The New York City native, who just picked up a Grammy nomination<\/a> for Best New Artist, opened with \u201c12 to 12<\/a>,\u201d an MTV Video Music Awards nominee for Song of the Summer.<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sombr returned later at the piano with \u201cBack to Friends,\u201d which he alone wrote and produced.<\/p>\n The lead single from the ten-track LP, \u201cBack to Friends\u201d is one of Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Best Songs of 2025 So Far<\/a>, as it \u201cplays out like an impassioned conversation that bleeds through the walls and captures the melodrama of teenage love.\u201d<\/p>\n Sombr, whose real name is Shane Boose, \u201cperforms with a distinct internal confidence and external charm that has been notably absent in the withering releases from many of his male contemporaries in pop,\u201d as Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Larisha Paul wrote<\/a> in a positive review of his first album.<\/p>\n Sombr\u2019s stop at SNL<\/em> coincided with the end of the North American leg of The Late Nights & Young Romance Tour, which he sold out<\/a>. Early next month, he\u2019ll head to<\/a> New Zealand and Australia before beginning a run of shows in Europe in February.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s hard to step back and be like, \u2018Wow, this is amazing\u2019 when everything is happening so fast, but it is the best thing that has ever happened to me,\u201d the 20-year-old revealed to MTV<\/a> in September, before making his awards show debut<\/a> at the VMAs. \u201cBeing able to meet all these people, go to all these countries, and see all these new faces and beautiful people who connect with my music \u2014 it\u2019s all I ever wanted to do in my life, so it\u2019s the best thing ever.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Singer-songwriter Sombr debuted on Saturday Night Live with two hits from I Barely Know Her, his debut album that he released in August. The New York City native, who just picked up a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, opened with \u201c12 to 12,\u201d an MTV Video Music Awards nominee for Song of the Summer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2144553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[394041,337128,25614,314737],"class_list":["post-2144552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-grammy-nomination","tag-mtv-video-music-awards","tag-new-york-city","tag-rolling-stone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Watch-Sombr-Perform-12-to-12-\u2018Back-to-Friends.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144554,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144552\/revisions\/2144554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2144553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}