Preceded
by her sizzling
and suggestive
debut single, “No
Strings” – which
is already
tearing up
major radio
playlists
around the
country -
Lola’s
SoBe/Warner
Bros. debut Take
It Like I
Give It,
blasts through
conventional
genres by
reflecting
this 25-year-old
singer/songwriter’s
boundless
upbringing
across three
continents
and her refusal
to conform
to any conventional
musical plots. “It’s
more about
the content
of a song
than a particular
style,” she
says of her
musical modus
operandi. “I
never think
before I start
writing a
song if it
will be rock,
R&B, or
whatever,
it just comes
out of me
the way it
comes out.”
Born and
raised by
hippie parents
in Paris’ gritty
and multicultural
Belleville
district via
layovers in
Brazil, Los
Angeles, and
now Brooklyn,
what comes
out could
be called
any number
of things
-- soul-fueled
rock, lounge-fed
R&B, jazz-soaked
pop, and blues-sopped
hip-hop. Yet
the description
that truly
does her music
justice is attention-grabbing.
Reared on
a diverse
musical tapestry
- tenacious
hip-hop, hardscrabble
Delta blues,
peace-loving ‘60s
rock and soul
- and counting
Prince, Aretha
Franklin,
Joni Mitchell,
Red Hot Chili
Peppers, and
Michael Jackson
among her
mentors, Lola
felt the fever
from the age
of two. “One
of my first
memories was
hearing Off
the Wall for
the first
time,” she
says. “I
remember almost
going into
convulsions – it
was my first
musical slap
in the face.”
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