Moriah Pereira

## Moriah Pereira (Poppy)

**Moriah Rose Pereira** (professionally known as Poppy) is an American singer-songwriter.

## Personal Life

She was born in Whitman, Massachusetts. She is 28 years old, her date of birth is January 1st, 1995. She claims she used to want to be a Rockette when she was younger and danced for several years. She grew up watching her father play drums for the band Cyrenic. She was inspired to become a singer after watching many shows. Later bumping into Titanic Sinclair in Los Angeles in 2013 she later then became the actress to portray the character Poppy and started her professional music career from then. Not much is known about her personal life.

## Music Career

### 2011-2014

Moriah started a YouTube channel called "Moriah Poppy" and started uploading covers and originals of songs. She performed live at small venues and was sometimes interviewed. This era's videos to this date have been deleted and/or privated and some have been lost and/or archived and/or found due to the Poppy project. If you try to upload anything to sites such as YouTube related to Moriah, the video will most likely be taken down.

### 2014-2020

After bumping into Titanic Sinclair (citing him as an internet friend in an old recorded interview) somewhere in Los Angeles during a trip, they later started the Poppy musical project. Hence, started her professional music career. She later signed with *Island Records*and released her debut EP and two singles "*Everybody Wants To Be Poppy*" and "*Adored*". In late 2016, Moriah had either been fired from or left *Island Records*to create less modern sounding music. She created a label alongside with Titanic called "*I'm Poppy Records"*and later releasing a single called "*I'm Poppy"*and later collaborating with *Mad Decent Records*to help produce songs for her album "*Poppy.Computer*". She has had some shows for *Bubblebath EP*(however the full tour was canceled) and is going on tour for her debut album *Poppy.Computer.* She is going on her winter portion of the Poppy.Computer Tour in 2018. Poppy and Titanic made a pilot to their YouTube Red Show called "I'm Poppy". The first episode premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. On June 28th, 2019, Poppy released her second EP *Choke*, which was her last release under Mad Decent before leaving the label in July 2019. It included the singles "Voicemail", "Scary Mask", and "Choke". Later that month, she released a graphic novel titled *Genesis 1*, along with her second ambient album *I C U (Music to Read To)*, which serves as the soundtrack to the graphic novel. On December 28th, 2019, Poppy released a statement in regards to the end of her relationship with Titanic Sinclair, stating that she had met Sinclair at a young age and had defended his actions due to believing he was "misunderstood". Poppy further stated that Sinclair had glamorized suicide and had used it in the past to manipulate her. She reached her breaking point when Sinclair had messaged fans before a suicide attempt while she was on the *Threesome Tour*. According to Poppy, these were tactics he had used against her for years, stating that she felt "trapped in a mess that [she] needed to dig [her] way out of". She released her third album, *I Disagree*, on January 10th, 2020. The album marked Poppy's first Billboard 200 entry, peaking at number 130 and selling over 7,000 units.[10] Poppy went on the *Threesome Tour* with Bring Me the Horizon and Sleeping with Sirens to promote both the album and the *Choke* EP. She also went on the *I Disagree Tour* to promote the album, and will be going on the *Deftones Summer Tour 2020* with Deftones and Gojira in 2021. On August 4th, 2020, Poppy will release her second graphic novel, *Damnation: Poppy's Inferno*, along with its soundtrack *Music to Scream To*. In April of 2020, Poppy would return to her YouTube channel to create and direct a series of makeup tutorial videos featuring herself.

Poppy got a Grammy nomination for her song BLOODMONEY off I Disagree. Although, she lost.

### 2021-Present

Following Poppy's nomination, Poppy performed her then-unreleased song "Eat" at the Grammys. On April 8th, 2021, Poppy performed another previously unreleased song titled "Say Cheese" at the WWE event NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver, in which it became the new official theme for *WWE NXT*. On May 26th, 2021, Poppy released a cover of Jack Off Jill's "Fear of Dying".

On June 8th, 2021, Poppy released her fourth extended play *Eat (NXT Soundtrack)* at NXT TakeOver: In Your House. The EP contained official releases of "Eat" and "Say Cheese", alongside three additional tracks. This marked Poppy's studio production debut, producing the EP solely by herself.

Poppy's fourth studio album *Flux* was released on September 24th, 2021. The album included the singles "Her", "Flux" and "So Mean". She went on the *Never Find My Place Tour* to promote the album.

In August 2022, Poppy announced her fifth extended play *Stagger*, which was released on October 14th 2022. The EP's title track was performed during the *Never Find My Place Tour*. Coinciding with the EP's announcement, Poppy performed a then-unreleased song from the EP, "FYB", which was later released as its lead single. She supported Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction on their *Spirits On Fire Tour* in promotion of both *Flux* and *Stagger*.

In March 2023, Poppy released her single, Church Outfit, for her next album, Zig. A few days after, she announced her GODESS AND GODLESS Tour with PVRIS. A month later she released Spit, a Kittie cover. Not too long after, her next album Zig was announced and released.

## Trivia

* She has gone through many stage names such as *Moriah Poppy, That Poppy, Poppy Chan* and currently she uses just *Poppy.*