Featured Artist: Alika
West London native Alika is this week's Featured Artist.
West London native Alika is a multi-genre artist and songwriter who has been making waves across the capital since she won the MOBO Unsung Award in 2016. From a young age, Alika was involved in musical theatre and dancing, and has always been drawn to the thrill and escape of performance. However, it wasn鈥檛 until she began a GCSE Music Technology course that she started to get stuck into songwriting and crafting her sound.
A product of London鈥檚 youth club scene, something that seems to belong to a distant past in this age of streaming and online collaboration, Alika鈥檚 sound is clearly rooted in the old school styles and attitude that the scene fed. Nostalgic, catchy and full of attitude, tracks like latest single 鈥楰arma鈥� are reminiscent of the 90s pop, garage and rare grooves Alika grew up listening to. Citing her main influences as Missy Elliott, Ms Dynamite, Eve and Lauryn Hill, her music conjures up images of low cut jeans, crimped hair and chokers, and we鈥檙e certainly not mad about it.
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