Only Bee drops self-title debut album
Italian singer-songwriter Beatrice De Cristofaro, aka Only Bee, releases her self-titled debut album, Only Bee, on Soul Express Records.
The album doesn't present itself as a house album, a traditional pop project, or a work exclusively tied to the new contemporary Neapolitan scene. Rather, it constructs a personal synthesis of different worlds: sophisticated Italian pop from the '90s, the language of classic house, American R&B, Italian melodic sensibility, and a sonic aesthetic that dialogues with a European musical culture attentive to both songwriting and groove.
Blending vocal house, contemporary songwriting, Mediterranean groove, and soul sensibility, Only Bee unveils her debut album: a project transforming club culture, emotional songwriting, and Mediterranean identity into a sophisticated and deeply personal musical language.
Behind the project is Italian singer-songwriter Beatrice De Cristofaro, originally from Southern Italy, who moved to Naples in 2024 to find a more authentic and personal artistic space. Through the encounter with Whodamanny, Milord and the producers connected to Soul Express, the project naturally evolved through experimentation, collective songwriting, and continuous sonic exploration.
The album approaches dance music not simply as club functionality, but as emotional language. Throughout the record, groove, sensuality, narrative tension and vocal presence coexist naturally, creating a rare balance between immediacy and musical depth.
"Only Bee" moves across vocal house, contemporary Italian songwriting, Mediterranean soul-pop and European groove culture without fully belonging to any specific scene. More than a genre-based project, the album develops a narrative identity suspended between physical movement and emotional vulnerability.
On one side, the record explores more groove-oriented, club-informed tracks built around physical energy, elegant sensuality, and contemporary dance culture; on the other, it opens space for more intimate, cinematic, and interpretative moments influenced by soul, R&B, and late ‘90s / early 2000s Italian songwriting sensibility.
More than a debut album, "Only Bee" represents the first chapter of a personal transformation: an artistic space where desire, femininity, emotional freedom and self-awareness coexist without filters.
The project belongs to a new contemporary Italian musical sensibility connected to groove culture, selector music, sophisticated songwriting, and Mediterranean identity, while completely avoiding both local folklore and nostalgic revival aesthetics.
Only Bee - Only Bee
Release Date 2nd October 2026
Label Soul Express Records
Tracklist
A1. Only Bee feat Thanksmate - Sembra Vero
A2. Only Bee - Waiting 4
A3. Only Bee feat 1MOREPIZZAPLS - Body Rock
A4. Only Bee feat Giuseppe Fava - Night and Day
B1. Only Bee feat Obbi - Chosen
B2. Only Bee - Sto aspettando
B3. Only Bee - Scivolando
B4. Only Bee - Dimmi