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What type of artist do you
consider yourself to be?
I’ve never been a funky singer – I’m
more versatile- I’ve got RnB, pop and
retro tunes. I’m more pop, to be
honest. The remix of Do You Mind
made me get into funky – without the
remix I wouldn’t be in funky! My
single Daydreaming is more down a
soulful route, but the one after is
absolute pop!
What do you hope to bring to
the music scene – what makes
you different?
I’m versatile. When my album drops,
you’ll see what I mean when you
hear lovers rock and pop on the
same CD.
How much longer do you think
funky house will be around?
I’ll be really generous and give funky
another year – I know it sounds bad!
It’s like bassline; it came around,
dipped into the commercial scene for
three songs and fizzled out. That’s
the future of funky! Some songs
aren’t even mixed properly! Funky
should have been soulful house all
along, like Egypt with In the Morning.
Who are your musical influences
from the UK scene?
Dizziee Rascal is a big influence, and
Paleface taught me a lot and made
me more versatile then I thought I
could be. Tinchy and N Dubz have
also done so well! I’m also following
Sam Sparrow and Christina Aguilera
because of their music. One of my
next singles is heavily influenced by
Sparrow’s Black and Gold.
What can we expect from
the album?
Crazy Cousinz have more tracks on
the album; Sticky is on the album and
Kyla
it’s going to have some slow jams,
funky, soulful house and electro. It’s
a melody of music and I’m really
On Dizzee, lovers rock and scary trains
excited about it! I’ve not finished it-
it’s due to be released in February
depending on who will be on the
Travelling around Europe’s party push my pram up towards the album, maybe Tinchy will be there on
centrals, Crazy Cousinz’s singer Kyla speaker. When I got into my early there.
ords by Simone Buyer
has been very busy leading the life of teens, that’s when my interest formed
one of the UK’s top up-and-coming and I joined a girl band and then I What’s the craziest thing
entertainers. Amongst her stories of branched out to explore how it would you’ve done?
madness from Kos to Ibiza, she be myself.’ I’m petrified of Ghost Trains and
makes time to tell Flavour that it’s not horror films. MC Versatile talked me
about getting to the destination, but So what happened next? into going onto a maze called
Thomas • W
enjoying the journey... I met a producer in my area who said Nightmare where people grab your
he could help me push my material. I feet and stuff, and I screamed my
How did you get into music? did a fundraiser to get money for a ass off! They all laughed at me, but
I’ve always wanted to sing, but music video for a track called Be I’ll never go again!
my dad made me think of a plan What You Wanna Be, and it caught
B so I was teaching children the eye of Paleface, and we hooked What is sexy?
beforehand. I’m 25 now, and I started up and wrote Do You Mind and Swagger, and to be dressed in
when I was 19, and I loved it! But it another track, Think About You. Do jogging bottoms and still be sexy!
was never what I had my heart set You Mind kicked off in six months,
on doing. Even when I was little, my but that was how I got here today two
www.myspace.com/ukkyla
Photography by Daniel dad was a DJ and they’d [her family] and a half years later.
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