How long did it take for people to get on board?
But it was definitely hard to get people to believe in me and make music. I grew up in church singing, so I’ve always had a background and foundation for it. I was on the track just gang banging, a little bit like “south side, left side”, you know? But it was really different to me. He wanted me to do this gangster style rap hook. But you look so cool to me” and I was like, “I make music” and he was like, “really? Oh, cool” and he invited me to his studio. He met me at a magazine event and he walked up to me like, “I don’t know what you do. It’s funny, because I first started off doing a rap song with a guy named Taz Arnold, when I was fifteen. Phlo: I love the gloom, I’m really not liking the sun a lot. Noisey: It’s really, really hot out here. Which made for a vintage type almost blind date, as opposed to today’s personals, where you can pre-judge someone via a myriad of relevant social networks before deciding whether they’re on the right side of mentally stable to be worth both an appetiser and main meal at Frankie and Benny’s. ‘Poster Girl’ combines simplistic, progressive, industrial beats with Finister’s distinctive vocal stylings new wave R&B from a truly self-made young American.To make matters slightly more intimidating for my neurotic brain, I was to be meeting with Phlo Finister, an artist whom I didn't know too much about - beyond the realm of a few track premieres and a fashion spread in VICE - and had no time to prepare in advance for. Infused by Andy Warhol and the Youthquaker movement sensibility, the EP contains some of my previous work alongside some newer tracks”. Still at a young age, but moving forwards fast - Finister has put the finishing touches to her new ‘Poster Girl EP’ project, “This is a much more personal project a music concept which reflects my fascination with the Vintage Vogue “Mod” era. Finister found a self-spiritual home with the Youthquaker movement and ‘Mod’ sensibility together with a new moniker - the self-styled ‘Phlo Finister’ was born. It was a generation bursting with youthful energy leading the charge, in a flurry of Mary Quant miniskirts, were young icons that included Andy Warhol’s muses, Penelope Tree, Twiggy and Veruschka. The term was coined by Vogue’s editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland was reflective of the teenagers who dominated the music and fashion scenes of the day. It was around this time that Finister began exploring icons of the past, and developed a special resonance with the themes of the ‘Youthquaker’ movement of the 60’s. Finister then began her infamous mixtape series, and worked with producers such as Andrew Dawson (The Weeknd, Kanye West, Tyler The Creator), 4AD’s A$AP Rocky collaborator Spaceghostpurrp and Island Def Jam’s Benny Cassette.
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It was during this time that Finister met a series of industry professionals and producers (Drake, Charlie Walk, Steve Lindsey, Cameron Strang, Jeff Barry, David Baerwald and Diane Warren) who would exert influence on her own musical path over the next few years. I always have been a believer and a fighter - I’m never gonna not fight.”ĭeveloping her own unique sense of self, Finister found herself working with Def Jam Records in the styling of some of their female proteges in her late teens. When you come from not having a lot, you always think about your future and the success you can gain on your own. I took that as a harsh reality and kept going. “You were born alone, you’re going to die alone, and it doesn’t really matter. She then attended Hamilton Performing Arts high school in her teens, before dropping out to embark on a new radical path as a singer. Finister’s early musical taste was a well-rounded palette thoroughly grounded in gospel and classical music - she explored a wide musical palette which included Jerry Bock, Mozart and Janis Joplin.Ī change in circumstances saw Finister relocate to Los Angeles at the age of eleven with her mother where she would finish middle school. Phlo attended ballet classes until a late age and was also part of a church choir at which she developed her distinctive vocal style.
Finister was banned from listening to hip-hop and R&B records while growing up. Phlo’s early childhood was notably reserved and traditional, she attended a small private Christian school where her Grandfather was Pastor and her Grandmother a local English teacher. Phlo Finister was born Elijah Finister, in Oakland, California to half Portugeuse and Irish parents.
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