Phoenix Phenom

www.love-phoenix.com

“You have to know that things are going to happen as they should” says the multi-talented Phoenix. “My mother told me to just be patient and to maintain my concentration and get out there and get what I want.”



It has been a long and tough road for Phoenix. Her dynamic presence was realized at the young age of four when she first began dancing lessons. Putting on dance shows for her family was the best way to express herself. “I always felt at home performing” she says, “even from such a young age.” The opening track on her debut album “Love Phoenix” is the track entitled “Love Phoenix” where she professes the deep passion and desire she has always had for writing and performing her music.



Shortly after her dancing career started, Phoenix and her family suffered a massive house fire that completely destroyed the home they loved. “We lost everything, and after that I never looked at material things the same again,” says the young star. She soon realized that “the only thing that nobody can take from me is my music.” Many of the tracks on her new studio album reflect an awareness of loss, particularly in love, and her unwavering desire to move forward from destructive circumstances.



Still devastated by the house fire her family suffered, Phoenix began the process of rebirth. Moving around from city to city and school to school took a heavy toll on Phoenix as she was always the new girl. On the song “Till the Summer is Over,” Phoenix tells about how the end of one phase gives way to new beginnings, in both love and life. This theme is reoccurring on the track “That’s the Way Love Goes” where she tells how deeply love and change and effect your perspective on your surroundings.



Throughout her life, Phoenix has always turned to music for strength. When she was seven years old, her uncle bought her a walkman. Phoenix says laughing “I never put that walkman down. I only had one tape of Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation and I played that tape until it just died.” Listening to her walkman showed Phoenix that she couldn’t live without music. “Music is a universal language, even if you don’t understand the lyrics, the music itself is universal.” Many of the tracks on the album show a musicality that is rare and a true love for the act of creating music.



The song “I Should’ve Treated you Better” tells of regret in love, but Phoenix says she has no regrets about the life she has led thus far. “I can’t regret any of my life because it made me who I am,” she says. Phoenix knows of love and loss, and the track “Hurt” she lets the world know how making mistakes in love can affect the ones involved. The universal language for each of us is music, but love is something that is also universal and Phoenix’s album as a whole is a testiment to the scars that affect us all.



The sound of Phoenix’s album has been shaped heavily by the melodic dance tracks created by producer Manny Mo. Beats that may sound more at home as a score for a technological thriller movie are blended effortlessly with pulsating rhythms and harmonies to create a truly unique backdrop. Songs like “Lovey Dovey” echo the type of aesthetic that can put this album at home in any super post-modern night club contrasting with tracks like “Never Loved” that could be an anthem in any girl’s bedroom, give Love Phoenix a cross-over appeal that truly shows a glimpse into the future of R&B music.



Popular culture hasn’t seen an album or artist like this in a long time…



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