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Featured Artist: Shamir
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Quick Bio:
Shamir is a singer-songwriter from Las Vegas, Nevada. They are known for their androgynous personality, as well as their unique voice (as they describe it: "It's not feminine, it's not masculine. It's a happy medium ... I feel like if the world was more like that, our problems would be gone").
Their debut EP, Northtown, was released to critical acclaim. That led to the May 2015 release of Ratchet, their first LP.
They have received praise from major media outlets.
Jamieson Cox of Pitchfork said, With a piercing countertenor somewhere between Prince masquerading as Camille and the cracking adolescent soul of the teenage Michael Jackson, the 19-year-old North Las Vegas native dismantles the expectations maintained for vocalists based on their gender, demanding instead that the focus be placed on his agile, fluttering performance."
Lizzie Plaugic of CMJ says Shamir's music is "amazingly unclassifiable" - Shamir's voice "limbers and stretches like a wad of pink Silly Putty dipped in glitter."
Why should you care?
Well, every song sounds like "Funky Town", and not since Prince's glory days has a singer sounded so gloriously androgynous.
Shamir is a singer-songwriter from Las Vegas, Nevada. They are known for their androgynous personality, as well as their unique voice (as they describe it: "It's not feminine, it's not masculine. It's a happy medium ... I feel like if the world was more like that, our problems would be gone").
Their debut EP, Northtown, was released to critical acclaim. That led to the May 2015 release of Ratchet, their first LP.
They have received praise from major media outlets.
Jamieson Cox of Pitchfork said, With a piercing countertenor somewhere between Prince masquerading as Camille and the cracking adolescent soul of the teenage Michael Jackson, the 19-year-old North Las Vegas native dismantles the expectations maintained for vocalists based on their gender, demanding instead that the focus be placed on his agile, fluttering performance."
Lizzie Plaugic of CMJ says Shamir's music is "amazingly unclassifiable" - Shamir's voice "limbers and stretches like a wad of pink Silly Putty dipped in glitter."
Why should you care?
Well, every song sounds like "Funky Town", and not since Prince's glory days has a singer sounded so gloriously androgynous.