EDEI talks to Blues & Soul!

Friday 16th July 2010

Blues & Soul have just published a brilliant interview with Edei where she talks in-depth about her music and influences!

She says:

“ I think the soul thing came into play when I was around 15 and I discovered (TV vocal coach and one-time Brit-soul hitmaker) David Grant was doing singing lessons. Because I’d seen him on television, I was like ‘Seems a friendly guy. Let’s GO!’… And he was actually the first person who said to me ‘Oh, you have such a soulful voice for a white girl’… And, though I was like ‘I have listened to soul my whole life but never even THOUGHT about singing it because it would be too difficult’, he was like ‘No, it’s definitely something you should pursue’… So from there I just started working with producers who were into soul and Motown, like Elliott Kennedy. Which in turn got me wanting to do it as a career even MORE!”

Read the interview in full here:

http://www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/566/edei_independent_women/