Gabriella Wilson Quotes

Gabriella Wilson

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 27, 1997

As a young woman, I experienced high school and heartbreak, and the music I started to write was a little bit more poetic, and more inspired by spoken word. The real raw emotional things that sit in the back of our minds, that you were afraid to say? That's how I started to write my music. And that's how 'H.E.R. Volume One' came about.

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I went to a Buddy Guy concert when I was, like, seven years old.

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When I was a little bitty kid, I was listening to the stuff my parents were listening to. My mom was a huge Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige fan. My dad had a cover band that I sang with, and he loved Parliament, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton, the blues, James Brown.

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I just want to give back to the community that raised me now that I've gotten to a point where I can do that.

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Black culture, to me, is so important and I identify with young black women.

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I represent young black women, and I'm proud of that.

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I'm huge on the dynamic of my show and the experience, not just performing songs. It's important to me to make sure that people experience every song, and feel like I'm singing directly to them. Your eyes never want to leave the stage because there's always something happening.

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Living my truth was very hard - I felt vulnerable.

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It took me a while to want to do interviews.

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People always make me uncomfortable when they ask me: 'Who's this song about?' I feel like I let you read my diary and now we have to have a conversation about it! I already let you read it, let's just leave it at that.

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All the gossip - I'm not about that at all. The drama.

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My dad and I used to play Prince, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, The Parliaments, and a lot of older funk bands while cooking breakfast in the morning.

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One of the first CDs I ever bought was Alicia Keys's 'MTV Unplugged' album. That album is the one I would take home and listen to on my Walkman, in my room, before I had an iPod. I learned most of the songs on piano.

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I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.

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I love Toronto.

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All of my music is based off my life experiences.

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I write about other people's experiences from time to time.

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I learned anything can go wrong on tour, still, you have to put on the best show you can.

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People have always tried to imitate, but at the end of the day, no one can do me better than I can do me, you know?

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It's a great thing to hear people putting me up to this standard and putting me on this pedestal and expecting greatness from me, but at the end of the day, I'm just trying to be a better me as an artist musically.

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