However, her time working as a stylist for Def Jam was short-lived as she believed lacked the desperation necessary to be successful in the profession.
PHLO FINISTER SHADES SERIES
Finister met a series of industry professionals and producers ( Drake, Charlie Walk, Steve Lindsey, Cameron Strang, Jeff Barry, David Baerwald, and Diane Warren ) who would exert influence on her own musical path over the next few years. Whilst developing her own sense of self, Finister found herself working with Def Jam Records in the styling of some of their female proteges in her late teens. After getting kicked out for fighting, Finister transferred to Hamilton High School but eventually dropped out altogether. I got bullied in a rougher part of the streets, and it made me a person with a backbone". Not mixed or diverse cultures like where I had come from. Speaking of her time at Crenshaw, Finister described it as "very aggressive. She attended Downtown Magnets High School in Fashion for a single year until her mother relocated to South Central, Los Angeles, and she was enrolled in Crenshaw High School. This exposure to these styles also helped Iconika develop her taste in music, with some of her earliest influences being Jerry Bock, Mozart, and Janis Joplin. Ultimately she ended up developing her distinctive vocal style from her time spent as a singer for the choir at her grandfather's church. Growing up, Iconika was banned from listening to hip-hop music and discovered her early tastes and passion for music through classical music and gospel music. She also attended ballet classes at Hawthorn Dance Academy for 12 years. She attended a small private Christian school where her grandfather was a pastor and her grandmother was a local English teacher. As a child, Iconika's upbringing was very reserved and traditional. Illangelo's 'Clockwork' is available for purchase via Bromance Records HERE.Iconika, the artist formally known as Phlo Finister (born 16 July 1992) is an American R&B singer-songwriter.īorn in Oakland, California, Iconika (born Elijah Finister) is the daughter of a half- Portuguese, half-black mother and raised in her hometown of Oakland up until the age of five, when she moved to Los Angeles with her mother. The way this particular video has chosen to portray this is through the inspiration of Ghost In The Shell's thermoptic fight scene, Superman's Phantom Zone, The Blow-Up's plexi photo shoot scene and James Turrell's visual artwork.Įmpowering the lyricism delivered by Phlo Finister alongside weeping piano and urgent beats and samples whimpering, speeding, flicking and chasing, nothing about 'Clockwork's sonic or visual realm is in any way calm or apologetic.
Viewing a fight scene twice with different outcomes of defeat, we learn a lot about identity and the fear of becoming a puppet. Shot in black and white, we learn of battle, holograms and space exploration to be of the norm as these aspects shape the clip's literal.
Recently releasing his track 'Clockwork' with PHLO FINISTER, the two have just dropped its official video clip.ĭirected by Lance Drake, 'Clockwork' breathes a world completely alien to the viewer.
When's he's not wearing his " The Weeknd's Executive Producer" name badge, Canadian ILLANGELO is most probably working in his own musical playground releasing edits, originals and collaborations.
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