Mali-Koa Hood, often credited as Mali-Koa, is an Australian singer and songwriter based in London, England.
History In April 2012, at the age of 20, Hood competed in the first season of the singing competition series, The Voice Australia. She covered "American Boy" for her blind audition and did a duet cover of "What's Up?" before being eliminated in the battle rounds portion of the show.
On 22 December 2017, Hood released her debut solo song and promotional single, "Honest". The song received over 2 million streams. In March 2018, Hood announced that she had signed a record deal with Island Records UK and revealed that she would be releasing an album.
On 26 July 2018, Hood was featured on a remix of JP Cooper's song "All This Love". The song received national radio play and was later featured on the fifth season of the British reality series, Love Island. As of July 2020, the song's official music video has received over 15 million views on YouTube and over 9 million streams on Spotify.
On 7 December 2018, Hood released "Pretend", her first song released via Island Records. In May 2019, Hood performed at The Great Escape festival in London. On 31 May 2019, Hood released a song titled "Sorry" with the track's accompanying music video being released on 12 June. The song's official music video has since received 2.5 million views on YouTube.
In March 2020, Hood performed at the Global APRA Music Awards in London. On 22 April 2020, Hood released "Dancer", the first single from her upcoming album, set for release later in the year. The song's accompanying music video was released the same day. On 4 June 2020, Hood released the album's second single, titled "Some Things", premiering the song on Atwood Magazine. On 9 July 2020. Hood released the album's third single, "Me Before You". The song's music video was released on 29 July 2020. In August 2020, the singer-songwriter released a cover of Robin S's "Show Me Love" and in February 2021, a cover of the song "You're the Voice" by the Australian icon John Farnham.
Mali-Koa is a grammy nominated songwriter. Her credits include writing on the work of G-Eazy, Marshmello, Tiesto, Subfocus, Gryffin, KX5 and Alan Walker.
She is part of a rising electro duo called AR/CO with fellow musician Leo Stannard.
Discography
Studio albums Title Details HungerReleased: 20 November 2020 Label: Honest Records Formats: Digital download
Singles +YearTitleAlbumLabel 2017"Numbers Game"(H Block Ink featuring Mali-Koa)"Honest"Hunger2018"All This Love"(JP Cooper featuring Mali-Koa)Raised Under Grey SkiesIsland Records"Pretend" HungerHonest Records Island Records2019"Sorry"Hunger2020"Dancer""Some Things""Me Before You""Revolution""Hunger"2021"Higher Than Before"(Flawes featuring Mali-Koa) Fawes EP: Reverie Red Bull Records2022"Sparks"(Meduza, DEL-30 featuring Mali-Koa) Anjunabeats2024"Sorry"(Headrow, Mali-Koa) Radiance Records (UK)
Song credits Year Title Artist Album Notes2017"The Beautiful & Damned"G-Eazy"The Beautiful & Damned"Composer2019 "Sleeping Through Sirens" Ben Hazlewood Non album single Composer2021"No Control" Piero Pirupa No ControlComposer, Vocals"Run Run"Will Clarke, Jaded, AR/COComposer, Vocals"Hot Air Baloon"Don Diablo, AR/COComposer, Vocals"Check Out"J.Worra feat. Leo StannardComposer2022"Under The Sun"Franky Wah, AR/COComposer, Vocals"Tears In Ibiza"The Stickmen Project, AR/COComposer, Vocals"Call Me By My Name"AR/COComposer, Vocals"GIANTS"Tiggi HawkeComposer, Lyricist"Night Feels"AR/CO Composer, Vocals"Supersonic L.U.V"AR/COComposer, Vocals"Sparks" and "Sparks - Extended Mix"MEDUZA, DEL-30, Mali-Koa Composer, Vocals2023"Vibration (One More Time)"Sub Focus ft. AR/COComposer, Vocals"Bright Lights"Kx5 ft. AR/COComposer, Vocals"Wake N' Shake"220 KID, AR/COComposer, Vocals"Back Around"Tiësto, AR/COComposer, Vocals"MOVE"AR/COComposer, Vocals"We Could Be Love"AR/COComposer, Vocals"All Over The World"AR/COComposer, Vocals2024 "Sorry" Headrow, Mali-Koa Vocals, Composer"Cherry Lips"AR/COComposer, Vocals "We Could Be Love" Hayden James, AR/CO We Could Be Love Composer, Vocals "Fantasy" Cosmo's Midnight feat. Franc Moody Stop Thinking Start Feeling Composer "The Feeling" Rudimental, 1991, PNAU, AR/CO RUDIM3NTAL Composer, Vocals2025"Incommunicado"Alan Walker, AR/COWalkerworld 2.0"Worlds Apart"Marshmello, AR/CO"Higher Power"Gryffin, Lavern, AR/CO
Awards +YearAwardCategoryNominatedResultRef2018Spark Animation Festival AwardsBest Video"All The Love" (with JP Cooper)
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