Pool Of Sound - Tayá

 

Tayá aka Taylor Fowlis was born in Toxteth, Liverpool in 1998 and started singing when she was about 10 and joined a choir called 'Positive Impact' for a few years which she loved., She said," I think everyone always sings, to the radio, in the shower or whatever but… I started going to this choir in Liverpool when I was about 11 and the woman who run it took a liking to my voice and starting getting me gigs around Liverpool. When I was 12 or 13 management came down to the choir and listened to me sing and I’ve been working with them since then." This gave her a solid introduction to performing to large audiences and she was also in the musical 'Our Day Out'. It was not long after this she was introduced to her management through a mutual friend. She performed at a MOBO seminar they were putting on in Liverpool and they have been working together since. Once she started working with the team everything changed quite dramatically, and she went from singing 'Beyoncé' covers at the youth club to sitting in studio sessions in London with established producers and songwriters at the age of 13. She made her recorded debut as a teenager in 2015 with the June release of the atmospheric slow jam 'Got Me Wondering'. 'Fingerprints', an aching ballad with Soulection affiliate Sango followed that in November. A slice of modern hip-hop soul, 'Sweet Waste of Time', was out by the end of February 2016, trailed a few months later by a club-oriented collaboration with Redlight on 'Here with Me'. Within a year, and many sessions later, she heard an instrumental from one of the other artists from her management called TS7 and she worked on writing the lyrics with some song-writers and that's how the song 'Heartlight' came about which did quite well reaching the A list playlist on BBC 1xtra.

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Though raised on a diet of Motown, listening to Diana Ross, 'The Supremes' and with an affinity for pop-R&B artists like Ashanti and Ciara, as she got a bit older she came into her own musical tastes. As she says," I think everyone’s inspiration is Beyoncé, I love that music and it’s some of my favourite music now". Tayá remains the musical black sheep of her family. "It’s a bit of a mad one. Everyone’s like, 'where has this voice come from?’ My grandad was in a jazz band and played the piano and the sax, but that was well before I was born."  She takes her songwriting craft seriously, preferring to draw from real life situations. "Every song that I write starts with a story: things that have happened to me or my friends and family. I’ll write down a few lines and ideas while I’m on the way to the studio. Personally, I like to start with the melody, as that gives me a bit of a shape and a guideline, and I build the words from there." The week she left school she was signed to the U.K. wing of major-label Atlantic, so went from full-time school to full-time music straight away and spent four years juggling school and growing up, travelling back and forth to London on weekends and holidays and jetting across the Atlantic working with producers, song-writers and a myriad of musical developers all to craft the perfect package. But the long road to shaping her career paid off as Tayá's considerable raw talent has been moulded from a naive soul-pop sound into something darker and seductive. 

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One of her first gigs was Festival in Liverpool, a really good show which opened the door to other shows including supporting Michael Kiwanuka. She also supported 'Bipolar Sunshine' and Jackie D Williams at the East Village Arts Club and has created a buzz at festivals in both her home city and at gigs around the country. She played Hyde Park alongside Nile Rodgers and has collaborated with producers enlisted by the likes of Beyoncé, Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. Her debut EP was lined up for October 2017 and that year the Liverpool Echo reported that 'Talented up and coming recording artist, Tayá will be performing at Liverpool’s first ever Echo Retail Awards on Thursday March 23 at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. Tayá is signed with the Warner Music Group/Atlantic Records who also represent Ed Sheeran, Jess Glynne,' Clean Bandit' and WSTRN'. By 2018 she had made huge steps and had released 'When Ur Sober', a collaboration with Yxng Bane, a pristine emotional rollercoaster about love on the rocks. It swiftly earned her a support slot on Zara Larsson's UK tour, playing arenas across the UK. When she's not on the road, Tayá's glued to the studio, collaborating with the likes of Starsmith, Diztortion and Snakehips while working on her Atlantic-signed debut album. In theory, she's testing the waters with as many producers and songwriters as possible, but her 2017 self-titled debut EP puts down a marker for emotionally sophisticated, seriously assured hit-making. "Don't tell me to be patient, I'm tired of waiting," she sings on 'When Ur Sober'. It shouldn't be long before her inevitable superstardom finally takes hold.

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