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Penelope Scott

American singer-songwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ107397764 ↗
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Penelope Scott, also known by her alias Honey Morello, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and producer.

In 2020, Scott released two compilation albums of demos, Junkyard and The Junkyard 2, followed by her debut album, Public Void. Her song "Rät" went viral shortly after its release, peaking at no. 29 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart. Scott then released the EP Hazards in 2021, followed by two more EPs, Girl's Night and Mysteries for Rats in 2023.

Scott had produced all of her music until 2025, when she released her second studio album, Water Dogs, produced by Max Hershenow.

Scott's third studio album, Fear of God, was released on April 24th, 2026.

Background

Early life and career

Scott grew up in California. Scott's father taught her how to use a microphone and introduced her to the technical side of music, using experience he gained during his time working as a roadie on tour. Scott's mother encouraged her to take piano lessons around eight or nine years old, and she continued to until her mid-teens.

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“Penelope Scott” enters the record as american singer-songwriter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Penelope, Scott and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2021, 2023, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-04-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Penelope, Scott and American.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107397764. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Penelope Scott” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.