{"id":96520,"date":"2026-07-17T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=96520"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:21:58","slug":"wyn-starks-finds-his-light-in-the-coco-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2026\/07\/wyn-starks-finds-his-light-in-the-coco-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyn Starks Finds His Light in the &#8216;Coco&#8217; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>There&#8217;s a reason Wyn Starks keeps finding his way into rooms most emerging artists never reach. The Nashville-based singer first broke through with a viral America&#8217;s Got Talent audition that earned two standing ovations, then found an entirely new audience when his original song &#8216;Who I Am&#8217; turned up in Amazon&#8217;s I Am: Celine Dion, soundtracking one of the documentary&#8217;s most emotional moments as Dion sang along to it herself. Now, with his sophomore album on the way, Starks returns with &#8216;Coco&#8217;, an afro-fusion-driven single about carrying strength you didn&#8217;t ask for and refusing to shrink because of it.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The visual opens with Starks seated against a deep blue backdrop, irregular flashes of light flickering behind him like lightning through clouds. It&#8217;s a quiet, contained image, and it holds for the entire first verse before the chorus arrives and changes everything: Starks becomes a silhouette, his outline filled with drifting cloud instead of a body. 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And it&#8217;s the rare artist who can sing about inherited pain and still make you want to dance, which, if you&#8217;ve followed Starks even loosely through &#8216;Pure Imagination&#8217;, or &#8216;I Drove All Night&#8217;, is exactly the gift he keeps offering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_23569\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qSxftN1EAIo?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Wyn Starks &quot;Coco&quot; (Official Video)\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/qSxftN1EAIo\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a reason Wyn Starks keeps finding his way into rooms most emerging artists never reach. 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