Who is the singer called Romy? Meet Romy Madley Croft

Romy Madley Croft, who releases solo music as Romy, is an English musician. She is a member of the xx, and she released a solo album, Mid Air, in 2023, which peaked at No. 15 on the UK Albums Chart. She was nominated for the Brit Award for British Dance Act at the 2024 Brit Awards.

Who is the singer called Romy? Meet Romy Madley Croft

Romy Madley Croft cut her teeth in music as a member of the London-based indie pop trio The XX. The group formed in 2005 when Oliver Sim, Jamie Smith, and Romy began making music together in high school.

Madley Croft first met her wife, the photographer and filmmaker Vic Lentaigne, in 2008. “Friday the 5th, September 2008,” she recalled, quite specifically. The xx was opening for another band, and Lentaigne and her friends had shown up.

Madley Croft’s album, too, is its kind of coming out: not simply as a queer woman, but as a woman deeply in love, both with the unapologetically pop club music of her teenage years and with her wife — something she’s never sang about before.