Take Jack Horton, a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose path to folk-Americana included stops at Japanese law school, Tokyo piano bars, corporate boardrooms, and government offices. His latest EP, "Imperfections," feels like finding someone's private journal set to music. And that someone happens to write really, really well. The five-song collection opens with "Set Me Free," a piano-driven confession that might surprise anyone expecting typical breakup bitterness. Horton...

Outstanding in the fields of singing, songwriting, and composition, Robin Shaw hails from Diss in the United Kingdom. The beginning of Robin's career in music was spent as a street dancer, when he was 16 years old, participating in hip-hop local talent events, some of which featured the television programme Britain's Got Talent. After a successful audition in Soho, London, in 2016, Robin, then 23 years...