![]() He liked the spelling of it and thought it was a very easy name. When I was 15, he was taking photographs of me hanging out and he called me ‘Phlo’-that was his nickname for me. “My best friend, his name is Niko the ikon. So listening to those older classic artists only made me wanna say more in my music and challenge myself.” But if you really think about it, and you think about doing music, your voice has an effect for change. "Everybody wants to not give a fuck or be a rebel. They had something to say and I think that’s something that our generation really lacks is a message. They were so inspiring because they were so prolific. When I heard her sing ‘Summertime’ or like Pink Floyd and Bob Dylan-the Blonde on Blonde album. ![]() What’s the music going along with this movement? I just started exploring it and with that my sound started developing with my lifestyle. It was the fashion that took me to the music-all this ’60s mod stuff going on. Phlo Finister: “I listened to a lot of classic rock like Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, The Doors, Pink Floyd. I was so into Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain and a lot of ‘90s grunge music and rock ‘n’ roll.” I met this guy, Daniel Luttrell, and we brought it into the studio together and it was a garage band set up. “I kept hearing this sound in my head but no one could translate it for me. I figured I’d be a real independent artist. I just saw all of the things I was doing for other people and how I could establish that in my brand and just do the styling, do the modeling, do the music, do the makeup, do the directing, do a new film-everything. “When I was 18 I decided that I was gonna go in and really make music. I could sing in front of anyone and my voice may not be perfect, but I’m very confident that I have a voice. "Honestly, that made me more aggressive with performing and being able to sing in front of people. It was shining in my eye.” I didn’t want to seem like an emotional mess, so I found excuses-but I was so scared. “I would cry in front of people as I was singing and then my little cousins would poke fun at me, like, “Why you crying?” and I’m like, “It’s the light. I always have been a believer and a fighter-I’m never gonna not fight. When you come from not having a lot, you always think about your future and the success you can gain on your own. “ was like, 'You were born alone, you’re going to die alone, and it doesn’t really matter.' I took that as a harsh reality and kept going. It’s fine now though, everything is good. You see all your friends with their parents and it was very hard. I had a lot of responsibilities at a young age, which today I’m proud of because I’m more independent. “I talk to now but I didn’t talk to her for four or five years. So I got into styling-it wasn’t a job, it was sort of a hobby thing. I made the decision then that I had to find my career path and something to do with my life. “Around the time that I was in high school I started living on my own-I was 15. ![]() Even though I dropped out of high school, I’ve always been interested in art history, education, and English literature because my grandmother was a teacher. “I read a lot of philosophy-I’m a low-key braniac. ![]() Intrigued, we reached out to the young ‘Youthquaker” to find out Who Is Phlo Finister? She told us about growing up going to Crenshaw, reading Machiavelli, and drawing inspiration from glamor girls like Andy Warhol’s muse Edie Sedgwick.Īs told to Lauren Nostro ( LAURENcynthia) 2” dropped in late October, putting her mod look and cooing voice all over the Internet. And her video for “Bang Bang,” a cover of Nancy Sinatra’s original over Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones Pt. However, the 20-year-old L.A.-based stylist-turned-songstress also released her second mixtape, Crown Gold, last November. On her 20th birthday, she was in London rubbing shoulders with Britain’s elite at Dolce and Gabbana fashion shows and hitting up the town with her best friend, the British-socialite, Peaches Geldolf. But the Oakland-born singer has more to offer than a solid list of A-list friends who she met while growing up in Los Angeles.īorn Elijah Finister, she spent the last five years modeling and styling for Def Jam artists.
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