Claire Rosinkranz Burns Bright

Ahead of her My Lover tour, the 22-year-old singer-songwriter is learning to stay present amid the whirlwind.

By Izzy Petraglia

Published on May 14, 2026

From the age of 11, Claire Rosinkranz knew that music was the path laid out for her. Growing up with a musically-gifted family in California, it almost seemed she was destined to shine as brightly as the sun she now embraces – even during the LA heat wave at the time of our conversation. Her sophomore album, My Lover, was mere weeks old, and her North American headline tour was still two months beyond her well-rooted present. Although it’s been “busy in the best way” according to Rosinkranz, she finds herself positively grounded at the beginning of the whirlwind to come.

She candidates herself well alongside her counterparts piloting the next generation of pop, but what she strives for is a feeling of timelessness in her music. For Rosinkranz, that indicator comes from touring. “You find out what you’re connecting to and what you’re not connecting to. [Some songs] are not-so-timeless and more for the moment – which is totally fine.” Yet, she invites the opportunity to re-ignite her passion with certain songs after seeing her audience interact with them. “Sometimes it surprises me which ones stick with the audience. It brings a full, new energy to them.” When we connect, she hasn’t played any of the songs since they’ve been released. Now, Rosinkranz is breathing new life into the project after wrapping support slots with Alex Warren and continuing on her headline tour – with Toronto on her itinerary.

Rosinkranz’s journey from the hard-to-grasp viral success of 2021’s “Backyard Boy” to My Lover is one guided by lived-in emotion and reflection. “This is the first project where I don’t feel like I’ve moved on from it emotionally while putting it out – there are still so many songs that I feel in sync with,” she explains. Rosinkranz loves the feeling of putting her music out, a quality that some artists find themselves on the opposite end of. “I want to put [the music] out before I move on to the next thing emotionally.”

The 22-year-old embraces what keeps her present and grounded before diving in too quickly to the future. Whether it’s meditation, a prayer, a walk on the beach, horseback riding, or time spent with friends – she aims to uphold her personal corner of the world and understand the moment that she’s in. “There are situations where you want to live as the person that you desire to be, but you also have to be honest with yourself about where you’re at right now.” Rosinkranz’s ability to embrace the difficulty that comes with honest self-reflection is both admirable and a true testament to growth cycles that form the ethos of My Lover.

While being in the music industry expedited that learning process for her, a health crash at 19 prompted her to look inwards. “I couldn’t do anything because it was a matter of life and death. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t go anywhere. I had to meditate with whatever I had,” she recounts. The stillness in Rosinkranz’s time recovering ended up becoming an introspective tour of herself – shining a light on the parts of her that became neglected and solidifying lessons she will never leave behind. “When you have access to everything in the world to distract yourself, you don’t give yourself the opportunity to find out about yourself – especially when there’s something that you don’t want to deal with.”

Luckily, even in the face of misfortune, Rosinkranz enjoys being challenged. “Sometimes that’s situational, and it sucks when you’re practically dying, but I believe that I’m living on the more positive side of going through hardship.” Her redemptive mindset is one you can’t help but feel inspired by; it seeps through her songs and emits from within her, similar to her home state’s sun that she loves deeply.

Above all, Rosinkranz comes back to her home life and faith to give her perspective when she’s not engulfed in the work that comes with music. No matter what level of success she reaches, she wants to experience everything to the fullest – creating from a place of childlike wonder, not strung by the validation of her audiences, knowing in her heart she isn’t compromising herself in the process. “If I can stay in that place, I’m a lot happier. That’s success for me.”

Claire Rosinkranz’s My Lover tour comes to Toronto’s The Mod Club on May 20th | TICKETS