The rise of Sorisa: bedroom to Atlantic in a year.

The timeline is almost unfair. In 2024, Sorisa was a Toronto high-schooler quietly uploading songs to SoundCloud under the name brokeboyhappy. By mid-2026 he was signed to Atlantic Records, booked by one of Canada's biggest agencies, and playing Rolling Loud. The gap between those two sentences is barely a year.

The name came first, and it says everything. "Sorisa" is the Spanish word sonrisa — smile — with the "n" removed. The artist, who is of Latino heritage, has said it's a reminder to "not forget who you are." He adopted it in September 2025, right as the music started to move.

The song that flipped the switch

The breakthrough was "U Look So Good In Fall," released in August 2025 — a bright, buzzing electropop record that went viral on TikTok. It's the modern come-up in one data point: a bedroom producer, a hook engineered for a feed, and an audience that found him before any label did. CBC would later frame the story exactly that way — a kid who went "from making music in his bedroom to being scouted by the biggest record labels."

He didn't slow down to celebrate. Since 2024 Sorisa has put out more than twenty tracks and two EPs — 98/99 in October 2025 and his Atlantic debut, I Love Colours, in March 2026 — a five-song set that Billboard Canada described as his "signature blend of EDM and pop." Billboard named him one of its 2026 Canadian Artists to Watch, comparing his sound to Nate Sib and 2hollis: "equal parts addicting, colourful and electrifying."

From SoundCloud to a machine — without losing the plot

What makes the rise durable isn't just the hit; it's the infrastructure that formed around it fast. Atlantic Records for the recordings, The Feldman Agency for the live business, and a touring instinct that already stretches past the city: the I Love Colours Experience mini-tour ran through Toronto's Mod Club and New York's Mercury Theatre, and a First Class Fest slot at Sobeys Stadium is booked for August 2026.

The through-line is a teenager who understood the assignment of the current era — that the audience is built on the platform first, and everything else follows. It's the exact profile DGTL Influence watches for: an artist who moves real numbers because the work connects, not because a budget forced it.