The 1Type Band's debut song, Rise Up, isn't just a song; it's a powerful anthem raising awareness of autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes (aT1D). Rise Up aims to empower young people living with aT1D and help them feel less alone. 1Type is Sanofi’s newly formed girl band comprised of four talented teenage girls living with Type 1 diabetes: Ella, Lola-Belle, Finley, and Olivia. Hailing from across the UK and brought together through Stagecoach Performing Arts, with sponsorship from Sanofi, they are united by their shared experiences of the condition.
aT1D is an autoimmune, complex, and lifelong condition - and it can happen to anyone at any age even without family history. It can be a challenging disease with lifelong clinical, economic, and emotional unmet needs for patients and families. In the UK, there is a growing prevalence where approximately 400,000 people are living with the disease, including about 32,000 people 19 years of age and younger.
Sanofi & Stagecoach have partnered on this project. This unique partnership brings together Sanofi's commitment to the aT1D community and Stagecoach Performing Arts' dedication to empowering young talent, using the transformative power of music to drive awareness and empathy.
This project, the band and all assets associated with this band was initiated, organized, sponsored and funded by Sanofi. The song Rise Up was co-written by the band members, Studio Salamanca, and Duke Al Durham. Sanofi is licensing the song and will not make any profits from the song. By listening to Rise Up, you're directly supporting Digibete, a charity providing vital resources and support to young people, families, and communities managing aT1D as Sanofi will match the profits Studio Salamanca makes from the song with a donation to Digibete.
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Following the success of her single “Jealousy” and her recent inclusion in IMPALA’s 100 Artists to Watch 2025, Swiss indie pop artist Veronica Fusaro is back with “No Rain No Tears” a shimmering, soulful pop track that blends emotional depth with summery lightness. The song offers a glimpse into her upcoming album Looking for Connection (out October 24, 2025) and sets the tone for her European summer tour.
Is it just a feeling, or is our longing for summer stronger this year than ever before? With "No Rain No Tears," an indie-pop gem of the highest order, Swiss-Italian singer- songwriter Veronica Fusaro meets us right where the craving for warmth, freedom, and good company becomes almost unbearable. At just the right moment, she delivers the perfect soundtrack for stepping outside, slipping off your shoes, letting your hair down, and dancing across the sun-warmed asphalt into a blissful evening. Whether it happens in reality or only in your imagination makes no difference.
From the first note, the sun-drenched melody sweeps listeners into a dreamlike state where it’s impossible to tell whether the summer of your life is just beginning or reappearing as a vivid memory. Everything melts into a feeling of pure infatuation. While the song speaks of longing for a particular person, it also captures the universal desire to leave the gloom of everyday life behind and fully embrace beauty and connection. "It takes real courage to love — because you have to be willing to be seen, completely," says Veronica Fusaro about the emotional heart of "No Rain No Tears."
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Montreal-born mokina radiates joy with her gorgeous new single ‘taila.’ Radiant and playful, talia is a charming tribute to the delightful weirdness of true friendship. Written as a dedication to her friend of the same name, the track is a bouncing dose of indie-pop that blends shimmering synths flawlessly with bright guitar riffs.
Sharing more, the real talia explained: "This song has become the happy backdrop to my life, buoying me unexpectedly in quiet moments. I met mokina at a time when I was seeking some stability after years of living and working in unfamiliar places, but I inadvertently found a slough of new challenges that I navigated as well as I could. This song casts a generous glow over these times that were not always easy or graceful for me. I think the song can be a reminder that it’s important to be generous with ourselves when we reflect back on our learning curves."
Written with Jacopo Martini and produced with Jeremy Lachance near mokina’s home in Ferrel, Portugal, ‘talia’ is the follow up to recent EP release ‘mirage’ which arrived at the start of May.
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Blue Foundation return with ‘Harsh Love’, a haunting, intimate new track added to their latest album ‘Close to the Knife’. Featuring the ethereal vocals of Helena Gao, the song captures the ache of emotional dissonance, the quiet collapse between two people trying to love through damage. Written during the same sessions that birthed ‘Close to the Knife’, ‘Harsh Love’ carries the same emotional weight: minimal yet lush, driven by ambient textures, fractured rhythms, and lyrical honesty. Helena Gao’s voice weaves through the track like a distant memory, fragile, questioning, unresolved.
“I guess I took it out on you,” the song begins, disarmed and direct. It’s a confession, not an apology. The kind of truth you whisper in the dark when everything else has already come undone.In the words of Blue Foundation’s Tobias Wilner: “It’s about the moment where you realize love has turned into something else, something harder, colder. But still, you’re reaching. You’re trying to hold on. Helena understood that from the inside.”
Helena Gao also appears on ‘Ecstasy in Space’ and ‘Voyage to the Stars’, but ‘Harsh Love’ stands apart in its stark emotional clarity. Sparse production, slow-burn synths, and whispered harmonies unfold like smoke. It’s not a song about closure. It’s a song about what happens when there isn’t any. The track features atmospheric guitar textures by Xie Yugang of Wang Wen and Jonas Munk (Manual, Causa Sui), whose layered work expands the sonic space, stretching tension into something strangely beautiful. Together, their guitars give ‘Harsh Love’ its cinematic weight, floating just above the wreckage.
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