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Laura Izibor is the truth. I discovered her music after seeing her perform over the summer at the Legendary BB Kings. Laura put on an amazing show and her voice is amazing. What I love most about her is that Laura Izibor is a grinder like myself. Recently Laura said “I stayed up until 3am writing a song last night,” she says in a super-perky tone of voice. “Which is weird ‘cos, the previous day, I took three separate flights and got four hours sleep. Shouldn’t the tiredness have hit by now?”

She’s also the epitome of the New American Mainstream even though she’s the Irish RnB Singer that everyone is talking about. Funny thing is that Laura Izibor’s race seems to keep coming up when she’s in the states. 

“It’s funny, the fact I’m black always, always comes up in the US,” she says. “It nearly helps win them over. But I have to acknowledge it, otherwise, it’s kind of hanging there. I recently did a gig at BB King’s in New York. It attracts a very mainstream audience. And they were all like, ‘what the hell? Black and Irish?’ So I acknowledged it and then they were like, ‘oh well, at least she said it’. They walk away thinking — hey, maybe there are black people in France, too? And in England’. They think the only black people are Africans or African-Americans. They way I see it, I’m educating them.”

Expect to see more of Laura Izibor on globalgrind. I got my eye on her. 

Xilla aka Xill I Am

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