RADIO.COM’s Kevan Kenney was joined earlier this week by Fousheé, as she opened up about how she began her music career, shared stories about her drastic rise to popularity and how it changed her life, plus she touched upon her highly musical upbringing.
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The New Jersey native tells us that she truly cut her teeth as an artist once she began paving her path in New York City. “That’s where I broke out of my stage freight,” begins Fousheé. “I just got my chops, performed a lot,” adding that finding her way in New York really provided her with an education as a performer.
After releasing her hit track, “Deep End,” the singer witnessed a meteoric shift in her career as fans began falling for the modern R&B stylings coming from the young talent. The singer first stepped into the spotlight as a cast member on season 15 of The Voice.
The 28-year-old tells us that “Deep End” was originally born from “a sample pack that I put together of different vocal clips. That was back when ‘Deep End’ was just the hook section of it, and someone picked that up and made a full song with it. Once TikTok got ahold of it, it just grew into another monster.” She continues, “My friend sent me the YouTube of that song that the person created and I remember when I saw it, it was like a week in and it was already at a couple of million streams and I’m like ‘what is going on!?’ And everybody is like ‘who’s this girl, we can’t find her!?’ and it just became utter chaos.”
Fousheé shares that the sparks that ignited her success around “Deep End” has been overwhelming, saying that she never thought it would all happen in the way that it did. “Last year I was driving Lyft,” says the singer. “And now I’m like on the radio.”
The “single af” artist reveals that she grew up in a musical household, surrounded by her mother who played drums for a band. When it comes to her mom, Fousheé explains, “I don’t think I would have been a singer if she had never exposed me to it. She was just always playing music. She stopped playing drums before she moved to America. She’s from Jamaica. That’s where she had her band, like an all-girls band. She played the drums she also sang too when she was younger.” “She just always made me feel good about making music,” muses the artist.
At the beginning of March, Fousheé dropped her newest single “sing about love,” and was promptly named a “VEVO DSCVR” artist. The singer released a live performance video alongside her new title.
The songwriter is on the rise and has nabbed the attention of such artists as SZA, due to her clear vision as an artist, impeccable voice, and mature lyrical abilities.
Check out Fousheé’s full interview above.
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