Artist · chart history
St. Lucia
Solo artist Johannesburg Germany South African-born and German-based Jean-Philip Grobler
St. Lucia is an artist from Johannesburg. St. Lucia has 6 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013–2016. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Elevate”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #15. The station that charted St. Lucia most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
St. Lucia is the alias of Jean-Philip Grobler, a Johannesburg-born singer who borrowed the name from the town of St Lucia back home in South Africa and set up shop in Konstanz, Germany. He came up through the Drakensberg Boys' Choir School, and it shows: he stacks voices the way other people stack synths, then piles synths on top.
The Elevate EP arrived in 2013, and its title track is a rush of shimmering keyboards and a chorus built for open car windows, glossy, sun-drenched indie pop that plays like an '80s soundtrack cue polished to a gleam. The full-length When the Night followed the same year, and Grobler kept going: Matter, Hyperion and Utopia came next, and in 2025 he split his ambitions across two records at once, Fata Morgana: Dawn and Fata Morgana: Dusk. Big, bright and unashamedly romantic, it's music that never sounds small.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by St. Lucia on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elevate | 4 | #15 | – | 2014 | |
| 2 | Dancing On Glass | 2 | #3 | – | 2016 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3 | Dancing On Glass | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2016 |
| 2016 | 50 | Dancing On Glass | WBER Listener Countdown 2016 |
| 2014 | 45 | Elevate | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2014 |
| 2014 | 15 | Elevate | WBER Listener Countdown 2014 |
| 2014 | 70 | Elevate | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2014 |
| 2013 | 93 | Elevate | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2013 |
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