Where: Tuesday,
March 29, 2016, 7:00 PM
When: Webster
Hall, 125 East 11th Street, New York, NY, United States
Biography
K. Michelle
was born Kimberly Michelle Pate on the 20th of August, 1984. She is a soul and
hip hop singer hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, USA and has released two studio
albums, six singles and five mixtapes since her debuting in 2009.
Maybe it
takes some of the romance out of being an artist, but wouldn’t it be more
refreshing to have some musicians that could have done anything they wanted in
their life? The stories of musicians who feel that they’re no good at anything
else have become a cliché. We as an audience known that if they weren’t playing
music then they wouldn’t be dead or in jail anyway, they’d probably be in an
office of some kind. It was always hyperbole anyway, in most cases, but doesn’t
it mean more to have artists that actively chose to pursue the arts?
K. Michelle
is a perfect example of this. Not only did she learn the guitar and piano as a
kid, not only did she have singing lessons from the man who trained Justin
Timberlake and Britney Spears as well, but she earned a scholarship to Florida
A&M University before she was 18. She began her degree majoring in Biology
and left with a degree in Psychology, so in Michelle’s case, music’s gain is
very much academia’s loss. So it’s just as well that she’s pretty amazing at
what she does.
By 2009
she’d signed with Jive Records; however her first four singles there didn’t
catch the public’s eye in the way many people hoped they would. They were good
enough to attract the attention of Usher, Akon and Missy Elliot, who were
slated to guest on her debut album on the label, but she was brought out of her
contract before the record could be finished. However, her career’s saving
grace came from a highly unlikely source.
During her
time on Jive Records, she’d made enough of a name for herself to join the cast
of VH1’s reality TV series Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta. Her razor sharp wit,
sense of humour and relentless work ethic made her the shows most beloved
personality, earning her a deal with Atlantic Records, as well as her own spin
off show in the form of K. Michelle: My Life.
Come 2013,
her debut album “Rebellious Soul” was released, debuting at number 2 on the
Billboard album charts and selling 72’000 copies in its first week. K. Michelle
had arrived with authority, and with the release of her 2014 album “AWBAH” (an
abbreviation of “Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?”) there isn’t a force around that
can stop her. This is an artist who’s going to do great things in her time, and
we should all stick around to watch it happen. Highly recommended.
Source: thekmichelle.com
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