What were your musical influences growing up? How Alt-R&B Singer Gallant Is Capturing the Attention of Dance Music’s A-List
So I met with Jhene a couple days later, she vibed to everything and wrote a verse. I was working with Stint, who did most of the album, and Adrian Younge and somebody brought up Jhene. was very random, but came together in a very organic way. I just feel like someone’s looking over my shoulder, like I’m making too many compromises. I’ve tried collaborating with other writers and it just doesn’t work. I’m not an extrovert.ĭoes being an introvert make collaborating with other writers like Jhene Aiko difficult? It just seemed like this music was truly a way for me to get certain things out that I can’t talk about because of who I am. Even college professors would say this isn’t your thing.įor sure. Most of the stuff I was doing, my friends would say, “This the worst music I’ve ever heard.” Nobody gave me compliments on my voice. Getting to that point allows me to stay in the clouds when lyrically and sonically, it called for that. Once I started recording vocals…I eventually started developing a voice that allowed me to do whatever I thought. The first thing that stands out about your voice is it’s extremely comfortable in the clouds. For now, get to know the raw talent whose muse is his own complexities. Gallant’s debut album Ology offers some of the most abstract and excruciatingly vulnerable writing heard from a rookie this decade––there are WTF song titles like “Percogesic” and labyrinth lines like “I’m a tritone bible with misprint logic,” off the smoky “Bourbon.” This summer, you can experience these numbers live as Gallant tours with label mate Zhu and makes his Coachella debut.