Talia Mai… The new face of R&B.
She’s the newest superstar artist to come out of the UK and is pinned to inject life back into the classic 70s/80s/90s R&B with her own personal twist to appeal to a 21stcentury audience. She has just released her first single ‘Take it all’, already breaking into the top 10 in the UK charts and predicted to reach number 1 by the end of the week. This success comes ahead of her heavily anticipated self-titled album ‘Talia Mai’ which critics have already been raving about.
“It was so exiting when I got the call, that I was the number one R&B artist in the magazine. Just absolutely amazing”. Talia Mai is the newest APEX TOP 50 number one R&B artist, beating other fan favorites like Drake and Mary J. Blige. “Honestly I can only thank my parents, they always played music around the house. Growing up, my parents always played R&B, Soft Rock and Soul, which really touched me and has had an impact on the music I release today”, Talia Mai was heavily influenced by the type of music her parents played her, and this can be seen in her newest self titled album ‘Talia Mai’, that helped her reach the number one spot in our list of R&B artists. “Honestly I wanted to have my first album self titled because this is a statement, this is my first record and I wanted to show everyone that this is me, I believe that everyone has a genre that speaks to them, and mine was is R&B”. Talia Mai debut album has already reached critical acclaim and from what we can tell the sky’s the limit for this new artist.
Talia Mai started singing from a very young age and progressed as she got older, following her passion and her mother footsteps “My family is very musical, my father playing the piano and guitar and my mother being a singer before she had me. She never really made it ‘big’ but she is really good friends with Rozonda Thomas from TLC”. Being surrounded with such amazing role models from a early age its no wonder that Talia Mai is the new big name in R&B “Music is in my blood”. She was discovered by Pharrell Williams who first heard her singing back up vocals on a special celebration concert of R&B in the UK, and her life has not be the same since, “Then I got an email from Pharrell Williams, who signed me the next day after my audition”. Talia Mai has stated multiple times that her life now is what dreams are made of, that the little girl that sung in her bedroom until the late hours of the nigh would be immensely proud of the person she has become today, “I started singing and writing from a very early age and it’s the only career path I ever really wanted, and in truth, probably the only thing I’m good at, its just a dream. And I never want to wake up!”.
The first song on her album ‘Take it all’ was inspired by the tragic loss of Talia Mai’s childhood best friend who passed due to a stroke, “Her passing just got me thinking about loss and what they would feel like, and especially sudden death. So this song was a kind of letter to death and the person that would be taken away.” She states the writing process was such a personal yet therapeutic way of dealing with the passing, death is an unfortunate part of life and she felt that it was a deep personal way to connect with all her fans “I just wanted to write about my experience, and help anyone who felt the same, or just bring back those nostalgic memories of the one people have lost”. Accompanying this track comes Talia Mai’s first ever music video, which she describes as a “Honestly amazing experience, I have to say that if you still haven't seen it please check it out me and my team worked really hard on it”. This video incorporates some personal moments that Talia Mai remembers fondly of her friend and brings back an old school R&B trope of the grayscale in parts of the video. “I enjoyed every part of it really, from coming up with the concept, which wasn't to difficult as I feel loss is a universal theme everyone deals with, to actually filming it was profoundly moving yet very rewarding”.
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