Everything to Know About Towa Bird, Reneé Rapp’s Musician Girlfriend

Reneé Rapp has been dating musician Towa Bird for over a year. The two stars went public on a red carpet in March 2024. But before becoming more than friends, Bird joined Rapp for her tour. It’s unknown exactly when their romance began, but ahead is everything you need to know about Bird and her relationship with Rapp.

On Sunday, March 10, 2024, the couple went public with their relationship, posing together on the red carpet at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. They were also photographed together inside the event, holding drinks with their arms around each other.

Bird kickstarted her music career on TikTok by posting singing videos and covers. Her content went viral during the COVID-19 pandemic and caught the eye of Olivia Rodrigo.

Rodrigo asked Bird to be part of her Disney+ documentary, Driving Home 2 U (A Sour Film). She can be seen playing the guitar for the song “Brutal.”

From there, Bird was signed to Interscope Records, the same label as Rodrigo herself.

“I went from making songs in my room in London to landing in L.A. and being on this massive production. I was like, ‘Wow: this is what life could be like for me,’” she told NME.

In 2023, she released three singles, and in February 2024, she dropped “B.I.L.L.S.” She released her debut album, American Hero, on June 28, 2024.

Bird describes her music as “if ’70s classic rock and ’90s Brit-pop had a baby, and the baby was queer, Asian, and a woman.”

From September 2023 to March 2024, Bird performed as the opening act for the U.S. and European leg of Rapp’s Snow Hard Feelings Tour. It kicked off in Houston and wrapped up overseas in Dublin.

“Opening for Reneé Rapp this autumn makes me very proud. I’m honored to be able to perform for her audience,” Bird told People ahead of the tour.

In November 2023, she talked to EUPHORIA. Magazine about being on the road with Rapp and her second opening act, Alexander 23.

“I learned so much from them every day, in a real way,” Bird said. “Reneé is so authentically herself. The persona doesn’t change…when she talks to me, she talks to me in the same way she addresses her fans.”

On Nov. 1, 2023, Rapp appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers, where she performed her song “Tummy Hurts,” featuring Bird on the guitar.

On April 15, Bird and Rapp went to the Interscope Records Coachella party together. (Rapp is also signed to the same label as Bird and Rodrigo.)

The pair was photographed smiling together on a couch.

The couple walked the red carpet for the the 2024 Inaugural Gold Gala at the Music Center on May 11, 2024.

On Nov. 22, 2024, the couple posed with Jake Shane at his Therapuss Live after-party at Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles. Rapp was dressed in a casual outfit with jeans, a T-shirt, baseball cap, and red leather jacket. Bird had a black-and-white head wrap and black coat on over light-wash jeans.

Bird was born on March 30, 1999, making her an Aries. Rapp, 25, is a Capricorn born on Jan. 10, 2000. According to astrology, Bird and Rapp could balance each other out and make a great romantic pairing.

“Aries is the alpha in most relationships, but surprise, surprise, the cool, controlling Goat makes a formidable match to the impulsive Ram. In Capricorn, whimsical Aries finds a seasoned pack leader and might even back into a rare state of obedience,” the AstroTwins wrote for ELLE.com.

“Although Aries can be a hellish brat, Capricorn is unruffled and even amused by the tantrums, giving Aries space to act out. Too many of Capricorn’s rules can cause independent Aries to bolt for freedom. But like a grade-school kid who packs a bag and hides around the block before realizing their faulty line of thinking—what happens when I get hungry? What about my comfortable bed?—it won’t be long before the Ram returns to Capricorn’s stabilizing provisions. If you accept your cosmic power struggle, you can make excellent partners in both love and business,” they shared.

Bird was born in China to British and Filipino parents. She shared with UCLA Radio in October 2023 that both of her parents still live in Hong Kong with her sister.

“My family lives in Hong Kong and my sister lives with them, and so we’re all kind of, like, spread out. So whenever I do get the chance to, like, talk to them and catch up with them I’m very grateful for for that,” she said.

Along with Hong Kong, Bird also lived in Thailand before moving to London to pursue her degree at Goldsmiths College at the University of London, but ended up dropping out two years later to pursue her music career. While in London, she played guitar for the band Cassyette.

In May 2023, Bird told ESPN that she loves sports and originally was planning on pursuing a career as an athlete instead of music.

“My life before was primarily centered around sports actually. That’s what I thought I was going to do professionally,” she said. “As a 10-year-old, you probably don’t have the best read on what your life is going to become. And then my life did a full 180. I noodled around when I was young, but at 12, my focus shifted, and I started playing guitar.”

By 2025, Rapp wasn’t hiding her relationship with Bird anymore.

The singer spoke to Cosmopolitan about how much she adores her partner. “She’s my best friend. I worship her. I love talking to her, and I also just love watching her talk,” Rapp said.

She added, “There’s something so special about watching the person you are deeply enamored with talk about something they find interesting that has nothing to do with you. Which is rare, because I think I’m the center of everyone’s world and especially hers—and I am, clock it—but hearing her talk about streaming her shit [on Twitch], she’s just such a little freak. She’s this hot, sexy, intimidating thing, but I know a side of her that’s such a weirdo.”

She also shared that this relationship feels different from any she’s been in before. “I’ve had more good days than I’ve ever had in my life [in this relationship], and I feel like I’ve made music that’s better than anything I’ve ever made.”

Part of that peace comes from the security she feels dating Bird. “I didn’t feel like she was using me at all,” Rapp said, contrasting it with past relationships where friends would warn her that a partner was “using you for your house, your friends, your job, your connections, your everything.”

Rapp’s response to the question of opening up her relationship was blunt: “Fuck no. Hell no. Y’all do what you want to do. Not with mine. I’ve done it before. That shit is not for me because now I’m with the person I love and I want to marry—stay the fuck away!”

She added that her sex life is also thriving. “Sex is amazing for me right now. I’ve always been a very sexual person, and I’ve always known that about myself. Sex is just kind of cool to me.”