My Take
Clairo is one of those artists who makes you feel like she accidentally left a voice memo playing and it turned out to be the most honest thing you've heard all year. She went viral at nineteen with "Pretty Girl," a deliberately lo-fi bedroom pop track she made on a whim, and instead of chasing that moment she leaned deeper into her own interiority — Immunity in 2019 was quietly devastating, and Sling in 2021 felt like a Sunday afternoon that stretched into something genuinely melancholy and beautiful. Her 2024 album Charm showed she could loosen up without losing the intimacy. I love that she never sounds like she's performing vulnerability; it just seeps out of the arrangements. Grew up in Georgia, went to Syracuse for a bit, started posting music online at thirteen — the whole arc makes sense when you hear how lived-in her songwriting feels.
Overview
Claire Elizabeth Cottrill (born August 18, 1998), known professionally as Clairo, is an American singer-songwriter. Clairo began posting music on the internet at age 13 but rose to prominence following her viral video for her lo-fi single "Pretty Girl" in 2017. She then signed a recording contract with Fader Label and released her debut EP Diary 001 (2018).
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Clairo
- Name (Japanese)
- クレイロ
- Reading
- くれいろ
- Born
- August 18, 1998 (age 27)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Tiger
- Origin
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Concord-Carlisle High School
- University
- Syracuse University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Immunity | — | |
| Notable work | Sling | — | |
| Notable work | Charm | — |
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.clairo.com
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/clairo/
- Xhttps://x.com/clairo
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AD
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.