Kehlani Biography

Kehlani

Kehlani Parrish, known as Kehlani in the music industry is a 21 year old R&B, Soul and Hip Hop singer born in Oakland California in 1995. She was born with a unique mix of ethnicities as she is African American, Caucasian, Native American, Spanish, and Filipino Native American. From an early age she was raised by her Aunt due to her father dying and her mother having a drug addiction and being in and out of prison.

From the beginning she wanted to be a dancer, she went to Oakland School For The Arts to achieve her dream of becoming a ballet dancer, but she later on suffered a knee injury which meant she could no longer continue dancing. This then lead to her finding solace in music that she would listen to with her aunt, it would be artists mainly women with soul and passion in their voices which fuelled Kehlani's passion for singing.

As she now had a dream to become a singer, so at the age of 14 she became a part of  a girl group called Poplyfe which was successful in the Bay area where they would perform concerts, which they did for about 2 years. They later went on to be finalists in America's got talent, but unfortunately didn't win, but it got Kehlani noticed by producers. So months later when she decided to start singing again, she found herself trying to do so whilst trying to find somewhere to live due to her being almost homeless. This made it very hard for her to pursue her career seriously as she had no money and no home. As she had no money she found herself having to steal from shops for food.

In 2013 her luck changed, as Nick Cannon the host of America's got Talent when she was on it, contacted her asking if she wanted to be in a rap group, to which she said yes to. However when she got to the studio and discovered the sound and direction the group wanted to have, she had to decline the offer as it was not what she wanted. So she moved back to her home town in Oakland where she made and released her first song 'ANTISUMMERLUV', to which Nick Cannon listened to and then got into contact with her and set her up with an apartment in LA and studio time so she can pursue her career.

The studio time that was given to her allowed her to make her first mix tape in 2014 called Cloud 9, the album was very successful and ranked 28th in the Complex's list of the 50 best albums of 2014. This was a great start to her professional career and led to other chart successes. Only a year later she released her second mixtape called which was an even greater success as it was 5th in the National R&B Hip Hop chart, shortly after this was released she had been signed to a new record label, Atlantic Records. This meant she had finally made it in the music industry even though she had a lot of struggle to get to where she is now.

Although in 2015 everything was going well and prospering, in 2016 Kehlani's personal life was not doing so well. At the beginning of the year he got in a relationship with a NBA star Kyrie Irving, and their relationship was very clear on the media. But they later on broke up with each other, but the public were unaware of this, this lead to her being perceived negatively to the public as a picture of her in a well known artist, PARTYNEXTDOOR's ,bed which appeared like she had cheated. This lead to her attempting suicide shortly after because she didn't want to live with the image the media has created of her. But fortunately she survived and has fully recovered and has started her career again with a song that's even featured in the new film Suicide Squad.