STATS:

• LOCATION: Atlanta but from Savannah
• TENURE: I’ve been taking it seriously over two years now (singing all my life off and on)
• PROJECTS: von pea, danny!,ced hughs, hollyweerd, Maf, and I’m currently working on my album
• WEBSITES: GOOGLE ME
  

1. What drew you to music and what keeps drawing you?

Music has always been in me so I wouldn’t say what drew me, I would say what inspired me to pursue my music dreams. Music is my passion. I cant live without it, I cant breath without it. I’m inspired daily by so many things and people who have touched my life. Photography has a enormous impact on my life, how it moves me, how it drives and motivates me to create beautiful music with momentum and movement, which is filled with color.

2. You have a unique style as a person. How does that translate into you as an artist?

Funny you say that because my style is basically how I feel that day. My niche is “not matching”, vintage style clothing in my own way. Like my music, I don’t follow the standard songwriter pattern like “verse chorus verse chorus bridge outro”. I love mixing it ALL up, I write what I feel. Everything doesn’t have to make sense all the time. People get caught up in tradition and what the “world” says is right. That’s what I think sets me apart as a artist and fashionista.

3. While putting together you last LP”city of nowhere”, it took you 2 years because you had to start, stop, pick back up and find yourself and your sound. Why do you think the latter  is so important for an artist?

As an artist you grow so much during the process of developing your sound and concept for a project. I had things to occur in my life that forever changed me and my perspective on things and society. Like How humans interact with each other and How something small can effect you. You change and evolve, therefore, I had to step back and take a different approach. In return, I developed the sound for “city of nowhere”. City of nowhere was the birthing of my experimental/electro sound which open many doors and demographics for me. It was a groundbreaking track. I’ve learned so much from “city of nowhere” to “spectrum” its a tremendous jump. I felt things had to happen in my life to get what I needed for that project.

4. Living in Savannah, Georgia, we can see how you can be soul influenced, but how did electronica meet this southern girl?

Haha, I met this guy called toyko joe which now goes by ec/dc. I heard some of his tracks and I went crazy. I knew this is what I needed to breakthrough into something new, fresh, and music-forward. I never was the type of child who was consumed by whats around me. I grew up around a diverse culture. When I met Joe, we clicked and explored boundaries and heights of samples and sounds. And when I heard “city of nowhere” track, I was like “this is it”. This was what I was missing.

5. Who are some of your soul, funk, and electro influences?

James Brown, Chaka Khan. Jimmy Hendricks, Justice, Beck, Bilal, Erykah, Jill, D’angelo, Jdavey, Nina Simone, soooo many more

6. What is your songwriting process like?

Writing about a moment, my life, my intimate feelings.
7. What do you think is the best lyric you have ever written? Why?

Blues for blue because its colorful and metaphoric: “this is a blues for blue, a key that don’t fit the lock, this is for the love-me-knots bitten by words that i already heard….I’ve reached chords with no melody picking pearls from lovers dream…i got the blues for my blue”. I think the words are beautifully put together and not because I wrote them.

8. Where do you see yourself in the next 10 years?

I see myself married with 2 kids, sharing my musicality with them and my accomplishments. And being clever and seasoned as a songwriter and performer.

9. Whats the first words that come to mind when I mention these three words?
NEON: over DONE
THE EIGHTIES: NEEDS TO DIE
THE GREATEST: my mother

ARTIST’ WORK

Download Brittany’s “Spectrum” EP For Free 

Blues for Blue

City of Nowhere

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