Auburn.
No, not the colour... The artist!
Auburn Williams.
Relatively unknown at present, she was born in 1990 in Minneapolis. She released an album independantly in 2007 called ‘Same Girl’, but failed to reach fame and fortune with it. She decided to try her hand at garnering interest online and so she signed up to social networking sites, as a lot of recent singers have, to get her name out there.
She is very much an R n B singer, very urban, very now! Thankfully, she has now been signed to Warner Bros and Beluga Heights (Now you know why Jason Derulo randomly said it in Whatcha Say!) and is Jason Derulos opening act for his Autumn 2010 tour. As you can see, with the likes of Warner Bros, Beluga Heights and Jason Derulo behind her she is definitely on the right road to becoming a superstar.
So how did I come across her I hear you ask?
Well, I kind of stumbled across her on You Tube. She popped up as a ‘suggestion’, so I thought ‘Why not?’ The background for her song was pink , bright, seemed funky and there was a pic of her sitting down with some glam leopard skin boots on! (OK, I admit I just wanted to have a little perv on her boots!) Since then, I cannot get enough!
She’s amazing! To be honest, she hasn’t got the most powerful voice, but her songs are just too catchy! The first I heard was ‘La La La’ which features Iyaz ( Come on.... Shawtyyyy’s like a melody in my head.... Remember?)
It was released in Mid 2010 in America and peaked at number 51 in the Billboard charts. It also samples the uber catchy tune from ATC – All around the world. I can’t believe it only peaked at 51. Honestly, its so good.
Since I first heard it, I have had it on repeat throught the day, dancing around my house and creating my own dance moves with my hairbrush in tow! Obviously, if you have heard All around the world you will know how upbeat this song is.
I then heard ‘Best Friend’ followed by ‘Perfect Two’, ‘Just Text’, ‘Superman’, ‘No Good’ and fell in love with her tunes! I tried to find them on iTunes but it looks like she’s not available for us poor souls in the U.K just yet.
The thing I like about her is, as I have said, she is very now, very hip, very edgy. If you are looking for something that’s completely new, a new genre of music, then there is no point listening to Auburn. She is typical of the current R n B artists we have at the moment, but then again I am not looking to find a new direction in music. I am a sucker for a melody and with that in mind, she kills it. The beats she has and comes up with are just spot on! In some songs, you just want to move and groove, in some you think about relationships and the one you love, in some you hear her rapping and giving it her all.
Lets just put it this way, I have never been to a music gig, but if Auburn comes to the U.K – move it girlies, I am FIRST in line!!
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- Anna_Bellka
- I am Anna Bellka. As my mother likes to call me. Currently a student at university, studying Multimedia Journalism. And I'll let you in on a little secret... Whoever said university was easy... WAS LYING. I have two blogs: One is an online diary type thing, one is a showcase of my journalistic work to date. Please feel free to take a look.
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ReplyDeleteWritten with a lotta Soul...And if you get the chance to watch the videos, with this music, on MTV etc. Then all the more....!
My music is my life, my life is my music....
From early James Brown.....to.....JLS.(even).
If you ain't comm'in from the Soul, you ain't comm'in from no-where....!
Luv...Ma...Music...!:)
Keep'on Truck'in...!
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