Singer-songwriter Sombr debuted on Saturday Night Live with two hits from I Barely Know Her , his debut album that he released in August.

The New York City native, who just picked up a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, opened with “ 12 to 12 ,” an MTV Video Music Awards nominee for Song of the Summer.

Sombr returned later at the piano with “Back to Friends,” which he alone wrote and produced.

The lead single from the ten-track LP, “Back to Friends” is one of Rolling Stone ‘s Best Songs of 2025 So Far , as it “plays out like an impassioned conversation that bleeds through the walls and captures the melodrama of teenage love.”

Sombr, whose real name is Shane Boose, “performs with a distinct internal confidence and external charm that has been notably absent in the

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