If you combine rough with tender, storms with calm seas, beauty with pain or hope and aching, you’ll get something rather magical, and this is what the songs of Berlin-based singer-songwriter SEASOUL are made of. Born and raised in the south of Germany, SEASOUL ran away from her foster parents' home to New Zealand in 2014 after finishing school, surviving various schoolyards with the right songs on her MP3 player and the dream of becoming a musician one day. On the other side of the world, between work shifts, mountains, and dreamers, she found her people, colors, and sounds for the first time. She also found a soulmate who named her SEASOUL, like the constantly changing moods, feelings, and motions in her mind.
If you tried to categorize the songwriting of SEASOUL, perhaps singer-songwriter, folk, or dream pop could be the fitting terms. SEASOUL writes, sings, and plays the piano and electric guitar. After her travels, she moved to Berlin in 2016 to study music production at HdPK. Her goal was to collaborate with like-minded souls and dive into the Berlin music scene to write and sing – the only two things that wove the red thread in her constantly changing world. After various single releases and some chart moments with fellow musicians Felix Raphael, Yannek Maunz (e.g., Katermukke), and Brascon in their collaborations, she released her first solo album, Music for My Younger Self, in November 2023. SEASOUL self-booked her first three solo tours in the summers of 2022, 2023, and 2024, where she performed her songs in locations like the North Sea islands of Amrum, Sylt, and Föhr, as well as at small festivals.
After self-releasing her debut album Music for My Younger Self on November 17, 2023, a successful Berlin show at Maschinenhaus followed, presented by DIFFUS Magazine, taz, Yorck Kinogruppe, and Kulturnews. Accompanied by bassist Marlene Becher and keyboardist Johannes Walenta, she presented her new album in a dreamy atmosphere to a packed venue. SEASOUL was invited by Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Radioeins, and Radio-Alex in 2023 and 2024.
In 2024, Vanessa Sonnenfroh, the person behind SEASOUL, began playing in the Potsdam-based punk band JOLLE and occasionally on keys for the alternative band KAFVKA. SEASOUL remains the priority, but after years of searching for her place in the music scene, it became clear that more than one type of music feels like home, and so her life adventure now has more than one sound.
Seasoul seeks radical gentleness in a world that often hardens. She flows like water, deep as the ocean, and ever-moving like the sea. Her name embodies her essence—an act of survival: remaining fluid, rediscovering softness again and again, and weathering any storm without losing herself.