Goapele

I want people to feel inspired. I want people to feel good. I want people to feel something. I want people to strive for what they want in their life, and I want them to heal from anything that's hurting them. ”

I'd been doing shows, but I slowed down because I had a daughter and got to spend some time having more of a family life. ”

I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough. ”

How I started my musical career, officially, was really, like, my family and I deciding to put out, you know, the 'Closer' album that started really small, you know, with a vision that we'd make it pass there. ”

In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided that that's really what I wanted to pursue as a career, and that's what I was going to study. ”

I'm looking to immerse myself more in the entertainment community and possibly get into doing some acting. Music is my first love, what I was most naturally drawn to and choose to study. Getting into the acting world is like a new exciting challenge. ”

I care about a lot of social issues, and I care about fashion. ”

Mos is a true artist who has a story to tell and gives back through his music. He remixed my song 'Different' in 2005, and the song we're working on now will be one of my future projects. ”

There were a lot of anti-apartheid rallies and marches and concerts that we would go to as a family. And music was a big part of that. It was never just the politics. ”

I think police brutality has been going on since - I don't know - ever since I can remember and, you know, hearing about it in my childhood. ”