A soulful voice, moving rhythms, and not afraid to speak out politically...sounds like an artist that JTMP loves to write about.
Kirsten Price, is a British-born artist currently living in New York. She has just come off of her "Tough Times" tour promoting her latest album, "Guts and Garbage", and is in the studio making her second album. We got a chance to talk to Kirsten and get her thoughts about artists using their music for activism.
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Kirsten Price has just finished tearin' it up on her coast-to-coast "Tough Times '09" North American Winter Tour and is headed back to Brooklyn, where she will be pumping out some fresh sounds for your ear buds.
Industry Bible Billboard Magazine tells us that she "should offer triple A radio a new star.." You may have heard some of her work before; even before the release of her debut album “Guts & Garbage, Price’s music had been featured in such heavyweight television shows as The L-Word, CSI and Cashmere Mafia. Her unique vocals have been chosen by Coke, Clinique, Lee Jeans, and Campbells for national and international advertising campaigns. She has been touring extensively on her own to promote her album playing 120 shows in 21 states, and served as the hand-picked opener for Wyclef Jean, G-Love (& special sauce) and, the long-missing-in-action Sly Stone.
But that’s all surface. Listening to her album, and talking to her, brings out all sorts of shades, nuances and quirks. Although the press has compared her sound to such wide ranging artists as Amy Winehouse, Macy Gray, Christina Aguilera, Lauren Hill and Joss Stone, she is not “the next" anything. She IS wickedly funny and she is very exacting and determined. “I have problems delegating", (she admits). At the end of the day, what you are hearing is a singer who wants to express her creativity and do it, decidedly, in her own way.
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The singers teen memories from growing up in London involve her working with a number of a capella groups and choirs, “I always filled in for whoever was missing, the alto, the soprano.. When left to my own devices at home, I’d raid the whiskey cabinet, smoke some cigarettes, cue up some classic records Bach, Prince, Mozart, Motown, and bang away at the piano. It wasn’t the worst day to spend my evenings."
Eventually, music pulled Price out of London and toward New York City, where she arrived, jobless and near penniless, a week before Sept. 11, 2001. After some commercial work and generating a lot of industry buzz Price released her debut album in 2008 through her own independent label KPI, to critical acclaim. The result, “Guts & Garbage", finds the singer taking center-stage and having her fabulously talented collaborators working for her, not over or against her. Both Raphael Saadiq and Danny Saber have production credits on the record, which is both diverse and cohesive, deftly moving between the exaggerated swagger of “Crazy Beautiful" through the trip-hop flavored jams of “5 Days Old" and “Possibilities", with plenty of soulful harmonies (the retro-leaning “Bring Me Back" and contemporary pop sheen (“Let Me Go") to round out the mix.
Oddly, despite the increased interest in female-driven soul music (especially those artists with a UK flavor), Price admits she doesn’t see herself much in her contemporaries, or vice versa. “When I work, it’s like I’m living under a rock, she admits. It’s just me and my own stuff."
KP been awhile since I've heard from ya, hoping your being inspired with writing new songs, rocking on your tour and have a great time,,,,,happy 4th to ya!
...SooooOO!!! All of these celebrities Twittered...about Cali news 2day...and where were you Miss Celebrity?! I bet banging out another gorgeous song of yours...YAYYY your fans miss you terribly!!!! xo
Ugg, I'm sooo tired! the alarm keeps going off interrupting my comatose state. I pressed the snooze button once, twice, three times as I stare at the time trying to calculate just how close I could cut it with out being late for work. A single tear rolls down my cheek, i DONT WANT TO GET UP!!! And in an instance a smile stretches across my face.... Today's my day off!!!!!!!!!! Nighty Night.......hahahaha
"Freedom" still leads off my main iTunes playlist (since before I got to see your show at Joe's Pub last year - it's that good!). Would love to come out and see you again sometime. Cheers, Patrick
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