For the chorus of 'Secrets,' we used The Romantics' 'Talking in Your Sleep' and 'Pale Shelter' by Tears for Fears. It's like hip-hop: just grab it.
My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.
My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.
I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.
My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.
From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat.
