![]() So, I went into this mysterious performance with my hoarse Bree Runway voice which people like but it's harder for me to sing. You need to listen to everything I’m going to say, and you need to train your voice how I taught you to train." I said "Whoa, okay, fine." So, I’m training my voice and I was training so hard I actually lost my voice. I wanted to hang with my friends instead of staying after school, but she said "No, no, no, this is not the time to do this shit. She said "Listen, I need you for something, but I can’t tell you what it is." I asked her what it was, and she didn't say. I’ll never forget this actually I was eating a Big Mac and my singing teacher came in with her eyes wide open. I was at school and I was in the music room. You performed for Michelle Obama when you were in school. Otherwise, how is Bree is supposed to survive if Brenda is barely hanging on to life you know? I learned that I have to rest and take care of myself. Like treat myself, my actual self, like the human body as well as I take care of my music. ![]() I learned to celebrate my wins and treat myself better. What have you learned about yourself during quarantine? ![]() ![]() Has it been easy for you finish the EP?īree Runway: You know what, I’m actually extra busy because I built a better setup at home for recording and have been making a lot of content. We caught up with Runway to talk about going to therapy, performing for Michelle Obama, controlling her creative, and much more. Since the release of Be Runway last year, Runway has made quite a name for herself with the release of her singles "Damn Daniel," "Gucci,", and "Little Nokia." Her upcoming EP 2000AND4EVA is out everywhere on Friday, November 6th and features new songs plus guest appearances from Missy Elliot and Rico Nasty. It was so warming to hear their stories and that my music had helped in some way." I received messages from fans all over the world telling me how much hearing my story helped them. I never thought I'd ever feel comfortable as a dark-skinned woman and then suddenly I did. I overcame things I never thought I would. Speaking on how making Be Runway helped her she work through that trauma, she shared, "The highest I felt in life was when I started making music and talking about myself and my feelings and experiences for the first time, turning my pain into something positive. This represents her use of bleaching cream as a teenage because she was bullied during school because of the darkness of her skin. Her 2019 release, Be Runway, features a controversial cover depicting Bree Runway with half of her skin bleached. After the success of RNWY 01, Runway continued to make music but wanted to make it more personal. Entirely recorded in her home studio, RNWY 01 was the launching point of her rising career. In 2015, Runway released her debut EP RNWY 01. She learned how to be self-sustaining a long time ago and her vision and attention to detail permeates through everything she puts out. Speaking on that time, Runway shared, "That whole process taught me so much - it built my character and made me a self-sufficient, DIY artist who knew exactly what she wanted in terms of sound, look, aesthetic and style." To this day, Runway is extremely hands-on in all creative aspects of her career including making all her own music, designing all the visuals for her videos, designing her song/album artwork and styling herself. While in school, she worked part-time and saved up enough to build her own DIY home studio to make music. Starting early, Runway learned the basics of music production while she was still in school and shortly after began to make beats and freestyle with friends.Īfter graduating from school, Runway studied music at university in London. She gets her love for Pop acts like Queen and Lady Gaga from her mother and attributes the rest of her influence to watching MTV as a kid. My dad was also a drummer and he would always have music on around the house. "My dad was the one who put me on the path of loving music, I'm from Ghana so it was through him playing genres like High Life that my interest really sparked. Runway credits her parents for the eclectic origins of her destructive pop sound. I'm always asked if I'm a soul singer and I tell people, 'No, actually, I make very in-your-face, destructive pop that is all genres and everything at once." Her destructive pop sound is accompanied by vivacious visuals for her songs akin to the legendary music videos directed by Hype Williams and Dave Meyers from Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliot in the 1990s. She states, "Black women in music are always expected to sing R&B or soul: we are always boxed in. The London-based artist resents the fact that people assume she makes soul music just because she's a black woman.
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