SHE GREW UP listening to Stevie Marvel, Boyz II Males, and Brian McKnight. “Music is a large a part of the household. We’re very, very shut and at any time when we come collectively, we’re singing and dancing. My gran was a singer in her day. And this was all the time the plan. I knew for the reason that starting. Everybody knew.”
SHE SAID YES to each alternative to carry out—“expertise exhibits, soirees, I’d do Adele, Miley Cyrus, Whitney Houston”—and ever since she arrived in a recording studio in highschool, she’s hardly left. “I’ve been determining what I needed to sound like, who I’m as an artist. I’ve undoubtedly made horrible songs whereas [doing that], however all these errors obtained us right here.”
THINKING ABOUT “Water” reaching the primary spot on the R&B charts “is so loopy. My finest buddy and I discuss it each single day, ‘Keep in mind 4, three years in the past the place we had been!’ From the surface, it might seem like it’s rapidly, however for us, it seems like the appropriate time.”
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HER FAMILY is proud, and her dad and mom had been her Grammy dates. “Once I gained, I used to be in entrance of that mic with nothing ready, however there was a way of peace. Once I obtained backstage, my mom crying, my father smiling—they got here to America for the primary time and it was the perfect day ever. We had been driving again to the home, blasting ‘Water’ within the automotive, simply so, so joyful.”
THE ALBUM could also be a brand new sound for some, so she hopes listeners will come “with an open thoughts…. It makes me really feel good, and I simply hope it does the identical for everybody.”
AFTER AN INJURY, Tyla’s tour was postponed from spring to summer season. She guarantees the additional time to arrange means “it’s gonna be even greater and higher. Prepare.
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