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When you’re considering a song, is there anyone you play it for to get a second opinion?
I do play it to certain people. It’s not really about getting their opinion; it’s more about seeing how they react to it. If there’s a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that’s when I play it for people. Like my little sister and brother, I always play them my music because I want people like them to be able to relate to my music. They always know what’s going on; they’re up on what’s new. For me, when they hear my music and they like it, I’m on the right track.
You were so young when you got your first record contract. Do you ever look back on the stuff you released when you were younger? Does it still feel like you?
Oh yeah. All the time. It does feel like me at a certain point. I still needed to grow into my voice. I can hear certain points where I’m allowing myself to be free and then I also have another side where I notice that I was kind of holding back, so it’s a little half and half. But I think it’s less about me holding back, and more about the fact that I had to come into my own as an artist to really be able to go for it. Everything takes time.
Oh yes! It was a running joke when I was making my first album and when I was on tour. My different personalities would be Dika, Lika, and Mika. Dika was very sleepy—the lethargic version of me when I was tired. Dika was the one who was kind of out of it. Mika was the over-exaggerated version of Keke. She was too much. No one wanted to deal with her. And then I forget what Lika was, but it was an ongoing joke with my team about the different moods of Keke.
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