{"id":705,"date":"2021-11-01T19:19:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/?p=705"},"modified":"2021-11-02T03:12:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:12:16","slug":"next-up-ama-lou-trust-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/next-up-ama-lou-trust-nobody\/","title":{"rendered":"NEXT UP! | Ama Lou – “Trust Nobody”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For British singer Ama Lou<\/a>, this strange period of on-again, off-again revolving Pandemic isolation has led to a dogmatic work schedule and what she describes as prolific musical output. \u201cI wake up early every day, go to the back room in my home, study boards on the wall where I\u2019ve pinned ideas for songs, and listen to music and audiobooks,\u201d the 22-year-old songwriter explained in a recent interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it all started for the Brit Soul Ptodigy when she was just an 11-year-old girl sat at a kitchen table in north London playing guitar with her father. It was 2009. The Miley Cyrus starring Hannah Montana <\/em>movie had just come out that April and Ama was obsessed with it. Well, that and Rihanna\u2019s Good Girl Gone Bad<\/em>. And Destiny\u2019s Child. She was learning how to play their songs, singing and strumming along, so when she sang the heartfelt ballad called \u201cYou Ran Away\u201d her dad asked: \u2018Oh, that\u2019s the new Rihanna song, right?\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was like: \u2018No, I just made it up\u2019,\u201d stated Ama, laughing, while mocking her dad\u2019s stunned disbelief. \u201cHe was like: \u2018What do you mean you just made it up? You\u2019ve just been singing it for a minute!\u2019 I was like: \u2018I don\u2019t know, I just made it up! It just came from some\u00adwhere!\u2019 He ran and grabbed me a piece of paper and he was like: \u2018Write it down, write it down.\u2019 So I did that and then just, honestly, never stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lou describes it as a life-changing moment. And lthough she wouldn\u2019t be diagnosed for another five years, Ama was growing up with dyslexia and it was beginning to cause her trouble at school. Reading didn\u2019t come easily, but songwriting was something else. \u201cI felt like: \u2018Oh my god, this is so natural,\u201d she says. \u201cI didn\u2019t have to try at all, so I gravitated to it. I would run home every day to write songs in the kitchen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lou has stated she is a classically trained singer, and has expert control of her voice. \u201cI use it as a muscle,\u201d she explains. She previously supported her diaphragm by running 20 miles a week, but during the pandemic, she\u2019s taken to bouncing on a mini trampoline to break a sweat. She\u2019s also rekindled her childhood love of riding\u2014trekking to the Santa Monica mountains twice a week to exercise horses for a friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of months earlier, during her first trip to Los Angeles in April 2017, she\u2019d been introduced to Che Pope. A legendary producer who\u2019s worked on everything from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill to Kanye\u2019s \u201cBound 2\u201d, he and Ama immediately saw something in each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time Pope was the president of Kanye\u2019s G.O.O.D. Music and he simply didn\u2019t have the time to produce her himself. However, in something of a recurring theme in Ama\u2019s life, what could have been a setback for someone else turned, in her hands, into an opportunity to develop. \u201cI had written these songs, the three DDD songs, and I took them to him and was like: \u2018Yo, I need you to help me make these\u2019,\u201d she says. \u201cHe was too busy to sit down with me, but he gave me the resources to create my sound myself. He never told me I couldn\u2019t do it. He\u2019d go: \u2018Here\u2019s a session musician. I\u2019ve got a meeting, I\u2019ll see you in four hours!\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 He\u2019s been my mentor and a big player in my game. He\u2019s a good dude.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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