1. Where are you from ?

UK (London) / US (NJ)

 

2.Whom would you say you influenced you the most as a child?

My Father

 

3. Whats your ethnicity?

According to the British citizen census, I am Mixed/Multiple Ethnicities; White and Black Caribbean.

(British, Afro Guyanese and Afro Bajan) 

 

4.At what age did you start taking singing serious and what inspired you to sing?

I began pursuing a singing career professionally at age 12. Singing was something I saw as a "way out," an escape from all the aspects of my life that I felt were overbearing and hopeless. I always wanted to run away as a child. I told myself one day you'll be out of this town and you'll be traveling the world and you will be happy and feel loved because everyone will know your name. I think my father influenced that dream and fantasy immensely because he is an author and business owner and spent his life traveling the world and I always felt he was happy with that life so I wanted that freedom as well. 

 

3. What songs currently could we find you listening to?

Little Bit More - Jidenna

Your Number - Ayo Jay

Fade - Kanye West

Only U - PARTYNEXTDOOR

High - Tory Lanez

 

4. Do you feel like its harder for women in the industry compared to a male ? why or why not?

We both face very different challenges and pressures, but within the context of the structure of the entire world, men are in more positions of power than women. The black woman makes 64 cents to every dollar a white man makes, the ratio being a dollar to 77 cents I think between white men and women so there's a gap across the board between genders. And because there are so few women in power, as a woman trying to enter the industry there are issues and pressures that many of the men with the power to grant opportunities don't understand. On top of that you have to work extremely hard to be respected outside of being an object for sex. And I don't confuse that with owning your sexuality as a woman in the industry and capitalizing off of that. What I'm talking about is the entitlement that many men with power and money feel and how that can put a young artist, specifically a woman in the industry, in a vulnerable and dangerous position. 

 

5. What motivates you to not give up?

The fact that I've sacrificed everything I have for this and haven't invested in or ever thought of a plan b. 

 

6. if you could give advice to any young girl wanting to take singing seriously as a career what would it be?

I would tell a young girl the same thing I tell myself every morning... If you want this you have to dedicate every fiber of your being to this. You have to have an uncompromising attitude when it comes to pursuing your dreams. You have to go so hard and then go even harder to make it. I'm telling myself these words every day to remind myself that this won't be instantaneous, it doesn't work like that. 

 

Thank you for interviewing me.