Artist Biography

Artist Biography

Kehlani Parrish, known professionally as Kehlani, was born on April 24th,1995 in Oakland, California, U.S. She became known as a popular American R&B singer-songwriter who is currently signed to Atlantic Records. Kehlani's career effectively began as the vocalist for Poplyfe. After the groups performance in the show 'America's got talent', the artist was told that she had great potential without the group. After this, she became a solo-artist due to being offered several managerial and contractual disputes.

She released her first mix tape, 'Cloud 19', in 2014. The album was listed among Complex's '50 best albums of 2014'. Kehlani's second mix-tape, 'You should be here' debuted at number 5 on the national R&B/ Hip-Hop chart in 2015 and preceded her sold-out North American promotional tour.

In 2016, she was nominated for the best Urban contemporary album Grammy award.

Throughout 2015 she also received individual plaudits. Complex called her one of the '15 artists to watch out for in 2015' and Rolling Stone named her one of the '10 new artists you need to know'. She was also nominated for a 2016 Grammy award for 'Best Urban contemporary album'. Kehlani collaborated with Zayn on the track 'Wrong' from his debut album 'Mind of Mine', released on March 25, 2016.

We chose Kehlani as our artist as she possesses all of the qualities that we wanted our own artist to have as she is very successful. By our chosen artist being successful, it means her songs will attract a large audience that she has built up, meaning it will be good for marketing our A2 music video, as people will be interested in viewing our own interpretation of her R&B music video.