Iraina Mancini

London singer/songwriter Iraina Mancini crafts an elegant strain of pop shaped by psychedelia, retro-soul, yé-yé, vintage cinema, and assorted arcane sources. In the late 2000s she moved from fronting her electronic project Mancini into modeling and DJ sets centered on Northern Soul and Latin Boogaloo. Early in the 2020s she stepped into solo work, weaving those accumulated influences into a singular voice showcased on the singles “Do It (You Stole the Rhythm)” and “Undo the Blue,” the latter supplying the title for her 2023 debut album.

A London native, she is the daughter of Warren Peace, who collaborated with David Bowie in the mid-’70s. Her recording life opened in the mid-2000s as leader of the namesake electronic pop band Mancini. Their 2007 appearance on Channel Four’s Mobile Unsigned Act contest yielded an album produced by Jagz Kooner of Primal Scream and Manic Street Preachers renown. Once that band split, she joined the Liverpudlian indie outfit the Venus Fury, whose lineup included members of the Zutons and the Dead 60s.

She raised her profile through DJ engagements at festivals such as Glastonbury and the Secret Garden Party and at branded events for GQ and American Express, while also hosting a monthly program on Soho Radio. By 2020 she had returned to singing, appearing on electronic artist BT’s album The Lost Art of Longing. The next year she resumed her partnership with Jagz Kooner, who produced the retro-pop single “Shotgun” that opened her subsequent chapter. Additional tracks such as “Deep End” and “Do It (You Stole the Rhythm)” arrived over the following two years, sharpening her signature of luxuriant cool and leading to the Kooner-helmed solo album Undo the Blue, released in 2023.