Ligature Magazine is an online publication in the UK that showcases various displays of art, fashion, and beauty. Their fourth installment features the soulful 22 year old Lianne La Havas of South London. Lianne, who is well versed in her talents, has always had a craving for the art of music. Due to her parents' eclectic taste she grew up listening to artists such as Mary J Blidge, Jill Scott, Louis Armstrong, and Charlie Parker to name a few. Ligature caught up with Lianne to discuss her influences, album, unique sound, and more. Check out some bits from the interview below! If you subscribe to Lianne's mailing list you can download a free copy of her 'Live In LA' EP. If you dig that you should buy the Lost & Found EP on iTunes HERE.
Who Are Your Musical Influences? I tend to like really strong women in music and especially people like Erykah Badu, she’s probably the main one because I love her voice, I love her songs, I love how she stays true to herself with her lyrics and she sort of just talks about her life and that’s how I like to write in the first place and I really respect people who can lay themselves bare like that...Lauryn Hill and Ella Fitzgerald for their voices...India Arie...Also Laura Marling! She is amazing, I love her lyrics, I love her guitar playing, I love her honesty and her voice is also very wise beyond its years and she is really using it well.
How Would You Describe Your Sound? It’s taken a lot of different turns over the last couple of years while I’ve been trying to figure out who I am as a musician. It started off very piano led...But then I met some friends in South London when I was 17, 18 and they were all musicians and went to Brit School and they exposed me to this other world of music and that’s why I started learning guitar... I felt like had found some kind of vessel, finally, because I just felt it and I was playing how I wanted to play...I think overall it’s kinda of a soulful, jazzy influenced, folky even, interpretation of my feelings.
How Long Have You Been Writing Songs? I think I wrote my first rhyming words to music when I was about 11. I used to right little poems and I loved the poetry side of things when I was in English class and I also liked writing stories and things. (via Ligature Magazine)
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