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Career 2009–2013: Beginnings with PopLyfe When they were 14, Kehlani was recruited to join a local pop cover band, Poplyfe. While living with their aunt, Kehlani was exposed almost exclusively to R&B and neo soul artists, such as Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and Jill Scott, whom today they describe as some of their early musical influences.

Įarly in their life, Kehlani aspired to train as a dancer at the Juilliard School, but they had a knee injury in junior high, which led them to turn their attention towards singing. During their teenage years, they attended the Oakland School for the Arts, where they initially practiced dance, particularly ballet and modern dance. Kehlani's father, who also had a drug addiction, died when they were a toddler. They have described their ethnicity as a mix of " Black, White, Native American and Filipino, Mexican." They were adopted and raised by their aunt when their mother, who had a drug addiction, served time in jail. Kehlani Ashley Parrish was born on April 24, 1995, in Oakland, California.

2.3 2018–present: It Was Good Until It Wasn't and Blue Water Road.

So today, with each part being valued, I choose Kehlani’s “You Should Be Here” as my, make your way, hold your breath, rest your legs then start the race again, song for a, you don’t have to be any other version of you, what you are is enough, you are worthy, Monday. In the meantime, stay proud and claim your blackness and queerness deafeningly loud. It’s only a matter of time before more artists like this infiltrate the music scene. In “First Position,” a bold Kehlani persuades a seemingly bi-curious woman to “stop messing with those boys and “get you a lady” and it’s utterly awe-inspiring. But it’s one of her lesser-known songs that will leave you with the utmost respect for the singer. Her hit songs “Distraction” and “The Way” have attracted mainstream attention. Singer Kehlani, who has said she’s part black, is a bisexual free-spirit from Oakland, California. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, thereupon engraving the name 'Kehlani' into the pavement of popular culture. Her debut album, SweetSexySavage, peaked at No.

This Oakland, California native changed the trajectory of her life when her 2015 mixtape You Should Be Here obtained a top 40 slot on the Billboard 200, and later reaped a Grammy nomination for best urban contemporary album in 2016. Tsunamis can't be tamed, just as the magnitude of Kehlani's profoundness can't be quantified. We should be grateful and proud.īLACK LIVES MATTER + PRIDE (LGTBQIA+ Allies) So this June I will spotlight all Queer Black Artists to show you one more way in which we should be grateful for to the Queer Black Community and how without them we would not have the world or nation that we love so much. In light of the civil unrest around the nation and the injustices that have been forced upon the Black Community through years of enslavement, systemic racism, widespread oppression, and a set of generational socioeconomic traps, I thought this year it would be important to spotlight just how many QUEER BLACK ARTISTS changed and shaped the world through music, arts, culture, and activism. Normally during PRIDE month (June) I do my best to post only or mainly LGBTQIA+ Artists.