Kehlani.Photo: Cam Hicks/Grey Goose
After a decade in the music industry,Kehlanihas taken a new outlook on the R&B genre. Their latest albumBlue Water Roadis a refreshing take on love, given their past success with heartbreak tunes.
Now in a budding relationship with music artist070 Shake(who they featured in the “Melt” music video), a happy toddler at home whom they share with a healthy co-parent, and a new tour taking off next month, the Bay Area native has changed her tone to reflect the wholeness they’re experiencing in life.
Sharing this side of their life was something they were apprehensive to do at first, Kehlani says as she promoted her upcomingIN BLOOMperformance on July 10 in NYC.
“I think that we as a generation have grown up understanding a lot of music as an expression of pain – so many important moments in R&B were from pain, and so many moments of my career were from pain,” they tell PEOPLEat her surprise Grey Goose pop-up in Los Angeles.
The surprise came when they released the album earlier this month to a warm welcome from many of her longtime fans.
Kehlani.Vivien Best/Vivien Killilea/Getty
“I’m just grateful that they really see me in this and people that have seen me just go through thing after thing, after thing in the public eye are happy for me and see beyond relationship-wise — just the growth in me personally, and the growth in me and motherhood and the growth of me and my career and are happy for that,” they share.
As they’re about to set off on her first headlining tour in five years next month, they’re continuing to offer new and enterprising experiences for her fans. They’ll be hitting the road with openers Rico Nasty and longtime friend Destin Conrad, taking on cities throughout North America and hitting venues down under in Australia through 2023.
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The “Blue Water Road” Tour sounds promising for fans – old and new – since they’re guaranteeing a raging good time.
“It is just something different that I’ve never been able to capture in a tour. I’ve had openers before who were very R&B or they were rap, but they were very relaxed,” they say.
“I think getting to give this whole world of a show experience is gonna be really f––ing cool. They’re not gonna know what to expect,” they add.
source: people.com
