Lila Iké is the one girl nominated for a finest reggae album at this yr’s Grammy Awards ceremony
Destinee Condison
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Lila Iké grew up surrounded by music, in a small city within the inexperienced mountains of Jamaica.
“Christiana, the place I used to be born and raised, is a group the place music actually oozes out of each material of the group,” Iké advised All Issues Thought-about. Her reminiscences of music rising up included her mother’s stereo system, which Iké describes as certainly one of her mother’s prized possessions.
“And he or she would flip up the quantity extraordinarily loud,” Iké mentioned. “Thank God I did not get, like, listening to loss from my upbringing.”
Lila Iké says she realized the significance of placing herself first whereas making her Grammy-nominated album.
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Now it is Iké herself making the noise. Final yr she launched her debut full-length album, Treasure Self Love, which landed her a Grammy nod for finest reggae album.
Iké is the only feminine nominee in her Grammy class this yr. The award for finest reggae album has traditionally been dominated by males, with just one girl, Unique Koffee, successful for her album Rapture in 2020. Talking with NPR’s Ailsa Chang, Iké says it feels superb to be representing girls in reggae.
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“, I really feel proud as hell to be a kind of girls. And I’m completely satisfied [it’s] the kind of girl that I’m as nicely, trigger I am not like that comfortable girly woman,” Iké mentioned. “I am actually simply out right here being a Black girl as a lot as I understand how to, a rustic woman who’s rooted and grounded … so it is also not that illustration of girl that individuals anticipate both.”
As she chatted with Chang, Iké shared extra about reggae tradition, femininity and her latest analysis with bipolar dysfunction, which satisfied her she wanted to take higher care of herself.
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This interview is a part of an All Issues Thought-about sequence that includes first-time Grammy nominees, forward of the Grammy Awards on February 1. You’ll be able to take heed to the profiles on HUNTR/X, Michael Mayo and Destin Conrad.
