She began bouncing around, with various friends' parents taking her in. When she was 15 her mother decided she didn't want to deal with her anymore, she says. I got bullied in a rougher part of the streets, and it made me a really real person with a backbone.” After getting in a fight, she was kicked out, and transferred to Hamilton High School. Not mixed or diverse cultures like where I had come from. “It's very aggressive, a lot of black people there. But her mother moved, and she enrolled in Crenshaw High School. She first went to Downtown Magnets High School in Fashion. She was shy, she says, but sang in the church choir because her grandfather was the pastor. She identifies with Jim Morrison, and on Crown Gold, covers “Riders on the Storm.”īorn Elijiah Finister in Oakland, Phlo Finister is the daughter of a half Portugese, half black mother and an Irish father. Her EP has an ominous air, and not just from its sampling of Tupac's “Hail Mary.” Minor keys dominate, and her voice is thick with longing.
She'll erupt suddenly into laughter, but then clouds will churn in her eyes. Not at all - in fact, there's something intriguing about her. “Am I boring you?” she asks, her eyes fixing on something faraway.
We're speaking about her career when she suddenly becomes distracted. They're shooting the video for “Shades,” a song from her Crown Gold EP that was released a few weeks ago.
Right now she's in the backyard of former Interscope executive David Airaudi's house, whose company is also the home of Odd Future.
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The 20-year-old L.A.-based R&B singer has a sleekly feminine, almost demure Mod look in the video for her single “ Bang Bang,” a cover of the Cher original over Mobb Deep's “Shook Ones Pt. With her gold wire-rimmed sunglasses, she's Aaliyah, circa 1994. Her boxers are puffed out of the approximately size 38 jeans that pool around her ankles. She's wearing Tims and a tight, cropped Tommy Hilfiger tank. Phlo Finister's hair is black and stick-straight.
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