The lights dimmed, Rachel Chinouriri emerged onto the stage inside the tightly packed, sold-out Cambridge Room at the House of Blues , and the room exploded.

The capacity crowd — teeming with “Darlings,” Chinouriri’s affectionate term for her diehard stans — greeted the 26-year-old London native with a full-throated roar, the sort of sound you hear at sporting events, a vocal spasm of unbridled joy.

Chinouriri, beaming and backed by a trio of musicians whom she didn’t identify, didn’t miss a beat and tore into “Garden of Eden,” the opening track from her 2024 full-length debut What a Devastating Turn of Events . Phones outstretched, cries of joy filling the air and her words screamed back at her full force: “Too young but too old for this / The kids are throwing up in the garden.”

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