Flexxing with Nyla
YOU definitey have seen her face before, but Nyla (born Nailah Thorbourne) wants you to get reaquainted with her voice.
Former member of sister group Brick and Lace — don’t wory fans, they are just on an hiatus — Nyla is ready to hit the Jamaican market as a solo artiste.
teenAGE Observer had a Flexxing With experience with Nyla as we Press Record in Esco’s studio in Kingston.
What can we expect from Nyla?
“Well, my sound is going to diferent from what you heard in Brick & Lace — more melodic. There will be a lot more singing, because that’s what my sound is all about and will still have the island pop flavour,” Nyla told teenAGE.
Brick & Lace shot to fame around 2007, two years after they signed on to Akon’s Kon Live label, which was distributed by Geffen.
“Our ‘baby’ album brought hits like Love Is Wicked and Never Never… but after that there were some creative differences. We wanted to put out certain tracks and maybe they didn’t see our vision,” she said.
But the experience was still exciting.
“We had a lot of fun working with Akon, he was really good in the studio, his writing process was pretty quick,” she added.
Nyla and her sisters — Nyanda, Candace and Tasha — who form Bloodline Girls Entertainment, have also had a lot of success penning songs for some major international artistes.
Think Christina Aguilera latest album Lotus with Around the World; Nicole Sherzinger’s Say Yes; Jennifer Lopez’s I’m Into You featuring Lil Wayne; and pop-rock band’s Secret State Swear By You.
Nyla told teenAGE that she has realised that people around the world love to dance and she plans to make music for them.
“I’m drawing elements from different arenas of music, but it’s always going to be reggae-influenced, because that’s my base,” Nyla says. “At the end of the day, people see me as an island girl. Whatever energy I bring, I’m always Jamaican.”
— MEDHear Nyla talk about her new single Stand Up and other tracks, as well as the producers she’s working with right now on our EXCLUSIVE Press Record video on the Jamaica Observer website or on YouTube.com/TEENageObserver.
