Torres (Singer)

About Torres (Singer)

Mackenzie Scott, known professionally as Torres, is an American indie rock singer-songwriter. They were born in Orlando, Florida, and adopted at birth by their birth mother's bible study teacher. They were raised in Macon, Georgia.

Brought up in a Christian home, Scott was the youngest of three,having a brother and a sister.[8] At an early age, they learned how to play the flute and piano and sang in the children's choir at their Baptist church. Through The Phantom of the Opera, Scott soon became interested in musical theatre. They started singing in their school's productions. Scott began to perform in musicals, learned to play guitar, and started playing and singing hymns and at a nursing home.

In July 2012, while still a student, Scott recorded their debut album Torres over a five-day session at Tony Joe White's home studio in Franklin, Tennessee. Following the album's release on February 8, 2013, they played their debut show as Torres in Nashville at The Basement. The album was digitally released on January 22, 2013, and received critical acclaim.

In 2017, Scott met American painter Jenna Gribbon at a bar in the East Village, and by 2019, they had moved into a "live-work space" in Bushwick, Brooklyn together. They describe an experience of meeting Gribbon in a dream before they met in person. Gribbon proposed to Scott in October 2020, and they married in November 2022.

On May 1, 2021, Scott came out as non-binary.