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It's one thing to be able to sing well, but another to be an artist and find your own voice within music. And that's what the goal was for me in my teenage years. I had to find myself.Collection: Gabriella
As a young woman, I experienced high school and heartbreak, and the music I started to write was a little bit more poetic, and more inspired by spoken word. The real raw emotional things that sit in the back of our minds, that you were afraid to say? That's how I started to write my music. And that's how 'H.E.R. Volume One' came about.Collection: Gabriella
I went to a Buddy Guy concert when I was, like, seven years old.Collection: Gabriella
When I was a little bitty kid, I was listening to the stuff my parents were listening to. My mom was a huge Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige fan. My dad had a cover band that I sang with, and he loved Parliament, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton, the blues, James Brown.Collection: Gabriella
I just want to give back to the community that raised me now that I've gotten to a point where I can do that.Collection: Gabriella
I represent young black women, and I'm proud of that.Collection: Gabriella
I'm huge on the dynamic of my show and the experience, not just performing songs. It's important to me to make sure that people experience every song, and feel like I'm singing directly to them. Your eyes never want to leave the stage because there's always something happening.Collection: Gabriella
Living my truth was very hard - I felt vulnerable.Collection: Gabriella
It took me a while to want to do interviews.Collection: Gabriella
People always make me uncomfortable when they ask me: 'Who's this song about?' I feel like I let you read my diary and now we have to have a conversation about it! I already let you read it, let's just leave it at that.Collection: Gabriella
All the gossip - I'm not about that at all. The drama.Collection: Gabriella
I remember being really, really young and watching Prince and Michael Jackson concert DVDs. One of my favorites is Prince's 'Rave Un2 The Year 2000.'Collection: Gabriella
My dad and I used to play Prince, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, The Parliaments, and a lot of older funk bands while cooking breakfast in the morning.Collection: Gabriella
One of the first CDs I ever bought was Alicia Keys's 'MTV Unplugged' album. That album is the one I would take home and listen to on my Walkman, in my room, before I had an iPod. I learned most of the songs on piano.Collection: Gabriella
I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.Collection: Gabriella
I used to tell people when I was 15 or 16 that I'd never be that girl who goes through this, gets her heart broken, falls for this guy, but I ended up being her.Collection: Gabriella
I love Toronto.Collection: Gabriella
All of my music is based off my life experiences.Collection: Gabriella
I write about other people's experiences from time to time.Collection: Gabriella
I learned anything can go wrong on tour, still, you have to put on the best show you can.Collection: Gabriella
People have always tried to imitate, but at the end of the day, no one can do me better than I can do me, you know?Collection: Gabriella
It's a great thing to hear people putting me up to this standard and putting me on this pedestal and expecting greatness from me, but at the end of the day, I'm just trying to be a better me as an artist musically.Collection: Gabriella
I have to keep doing me. I have to not look at what everybody else is doing, or what everybody else thinks should be happening right now.Collection: Gabriella
It's not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.Collection: Gabriella
I wanted people to just accept the music for what it is without any judgement and being anonymous was the best way to do that.Collection: Gabriella
When you're growing up as a young woman, you develop all of these insecurities, and then there's boys and all of that stuff on top of that.Collection: Gabriella
We use social media as a platform to speak on issues that we feel passionate about and I see people debating on Twitter all the time about social injustices.Collection: Gabriella
My dad and I would perform around the Bay Area where I'm from in California together, and I also did talent shows growing up, I loved it.Collection: Gabriella
I really wish I could have collaborated with Prince before he passed.Collection: Gabriella
I'm always thinking about Prince when I make my music and how genre-less he was and just how versatile and amazing he was on the stage. I'm so inspired by him.Collection: Gabriella
I definitely study the greats.Collection: Gabriella
I go to my mom's house and she'll make me do the dishes or clean up.Collection: Gabriella
It's scary and uncomfortable releasing music that is close to you.Collection: Gabriella
I guess 16, 17, 18, that whole period was a dark time for me. I guess it was a hormonal thing, going through all those changes as a young woman, learning who you are and being comfortable with yourself, and also, which goes along with that, boys. It was definitely an unhappy, 'Who am I?' period. 'Who am I gonna be?'Collection: Gabriella
People at school knew I sang and that this was what I was gonna do, but I was pretty private and low-key.Collection: Gabriella
I've always been kind of a loner.Collection: Gabriella
I just love music, and that's what I want people to see and respect.Collection: Gabriella
We live in an era of social media. We care more about looks, popularity and followers than about real music. And I wanted to get away from that.Collection: Gabriella
People do things on Instagram and put on a front and try to live a life that they may not really want to live, or don't truly believe in. And that's the life that they portray. That's not the real them. We all have to be more aware of what is that's really happening inside. Are we really standing for what we believe in?Collection: Gabriella
I've become a voice for young women who are growing up and uncomfortable being vulnerable, uncomfortable with changes, heartbreak - and becoming jaded.Collection: Gabriella