"Butterfly" Single by Chelsea Dawn

Chelsea Dawn hails from Dumaguete City and started as a solo project by singer-songwriter Chelsea Dawn Bureros, who released her debut EP Cambiando in 2021 under Melt Records. She followed up shortly with more singles, including the melancholy ballad Fallout and the aptly-timed Mulat, which gained popularity as a timely statement during the 2022 election period. Her recent release Ohio (no relation to the US state) is a lovely ode to her hometown of Dumaguete.

At the height of the pandemic, Chelsea performed virtually on both a national and global stage, rendering a memorable video performance at Sonik Philippines 2021 as well as at Bangkok Music City in the same year. 

The group's latest single, Butterfly, was released on October 6, a week before her Manila performance, and showcases the band in its latest form with MJ Litorja on guitars, Abe Jun Esquibel on bass, and Law Tanatan on drums.

The new track, as Chelsea describes, is about “her writing a song about being fascinated by a butterfly when she was younger”, essentially a song about a song. Butterfly is all about coming of age, a common theme in Chelsea’s music, using the symbolism of a butterfly to represent the changes in perspectives between the past and the present.

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