Shane Boose, who records and performs as Sombr, struck a chord with “Back to Friends,” a song tracking the emotional mess of a fractured situationship.
But before he landed on the song, the native New Yorker was adrift in Los Angeles, “falling in with the wrong crowds” and becoming “a loser” — a term he defines, opaquely, as “the person my mom tells me not to become.”
He found the right collaborator, and now he has his first Grammy nod, for best new artist.
