Gabrielle Current‘s EP is her Diary: For a blossoming Gabrielle Current, enjoying her formative years, the influence of Jennifer Lopez was key. The pop-R&B artist’s mom was obsessed with J-Lo, and from the age of five, Current would soak in the live performances regularly screened on the family TV.
“I fell in love with her set – just the look, the lighting, how everyone in the audience was feeling this collective emotion,” Current says. “So I would stand on the coffee table with a broomstick or a piece of paper stuck to my face as a microphone and I would copy her every move. I knew that I wanted to pursue this as a career. Just be a performer.”
When she was done with school, she was able to take proactive steps, writing her own music and making connections with producers and co-writers.
“I love collaboration, so through meeting all of those creatives, I was able to learn tools along the way to help with my EP which is finally here. So that’s when I knew I wanted to make a career out of this and get serious.”
That EP is Virgo, a sweet and introspective body of work that highlights her glorious blend of R&B, jazz, pop and neo-soul. She thinks of the EP as a “Sonic Diary.”
“It’s a timestamp of the point in my life a couple of years ago when I was writing it,” she says. “I was so desperately longing to find love and validation through other people that I noticed this pattern around that time where I was losing a lot of relationships, whether that be friends, romantic relationships or family members. I realized along the way that what I was looking for was the love that can only come from myself. So all of the songs are talking about a specific relationship that has ended, but me choosing myself and that’s the only thing that matters in the end.”
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