Janiece: I don’t think there’s one type … Since I’ve started I’ve just been dabbling in different bits. I think what I’m trying to do is to create something a little bit different, a bit edgy but still have a pop element so it can get into the commercial charts. Basically, something a bit edgy but different from what’s already out there at the moment.
Kix: We know that you began your solo career in 2009, but when did you first take a strong interest in music and when did you start to sing professionally? Janiece: I started singing when I was 12. I was in a choir. It was a Liverpool music choir so we did quite a lot of shows and that. Together as a group it made me confident on stage. But when I left school I think I started taking it more seriously, doing performances of covers and stuff like that just around Liverpool. And then probably when I was about 17/18 I decided to go and start writing my own songs, so I came down to London and I was actually working with a collective called ‘John Deep’ and we must’ve made about
30 songs or something like that. And then I came back and showed them to ‘Yaw’ and he was like “Yeah cool let’s start working on a project.”
Kix: So have you two been working together for a while then?
Janiece: A year this month, we’ve known each other for a long time but yeah we started working officially together on the 5th of October.
Kix: Did you get any help learning to song-write like a course or did you just teach yourself? Janiece: Yeah, I just started it … since I was really little like 7 I think I wrote a song, like poems and stuff like that.
Kix: So your goal is to be the biggest pop star, have you got strategies set out in your mind to get to this ultimate goal? Janiece: (She half smiles) I think one of the main things is just to make music that I actually like. Cause everyone says make sure it appeals and that the genre is going to do well but make sure that I connect with it and that I like it. That’s the first thing, and also just hard work,
don’t just sit down and think it’s going to come to you.
Kix: Obviously you’re an individual and a unique artist but if you had to pick which artist would you say you were most similar to in voice, style and image? I thought you sounded a little bit like ‘Mya’ and ‘Blu Cantrell’ ... Janiece: Really ‘Blue Cantrell’! … (She smiles) I really like ‘Blue Cantrell’ …. I don’t know who, I think it’s hard to say for yourself.
Kix: Which artist/song writer has inspired you and your music the most?
Janiece: As a whole I love Motown, its timeless and I think to keep that timeless element and something everyone can relate to is important. So Motown definitely and Beyonce … I’ve been to see her like four times in concert, she’s perfect and flawless. When you’re watching her you’re thinking ‘is this a video?’.
Kix: On your myspace page all the songs are about love ... is that your favourite song topic to write about? Janiece: I actually consciously try not to write songs about love
but I think that it’s so universal and everyone can relate to it, you know. But, yeah I’ve got a few songs coming up that arnt about love but it’s just hard to think of them (she laughs). But you know we’re all girls! (She laughs). I’ve got a few songs on my EP, one called ‘Grateful’, which is about my family and then there’s one called ‘Like the World’, which is basically about children and how chil- dren make the world a better place … you know a bit like Michael Jackson! (We laugh)… you know that kind of vibe. And a few that I’m working on are about dream chasing and different kinds of stuff like that.
Kix: Who would be your dream husband? Janiece: My dream husband … oh my god (smiling), do you know who I love, ‘LL Cool J’, just since I was really small which is a bit weird but I think he’s just gorgeous and ‘Rock’ … oh my god yeah ‘Rock’.
Kix: What’s the best way for your fans to keep informed with the updates in the world of Janiece? Janiece:
www.twitter.com/ janiecemyers , I’m on there all
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