UK R&B/Soul singer Ashaine White is our Switcher Chats guest on episode 12, season 3, of Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris.

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

3.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

UK R&B/Soul singer Ashaine White joins me from her home in London to talk about her new release, being a busy vocalist in the UK, working as a music journalist, and much more... Ashaine brings the musicality back into singing with her nods to jazz harmony and a spell-binding but moody approach to Neo-soul. Inspired by the likes of Jeff Buckley, Lianne La Havas, and D'Angelo, Ashaine describes herself as a Grunge-Soul artist, taking the fundamental approaches to jazz singing and adding a modern spin.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Switcher Chats. Music interviews brought to you by Music Matters with Darryl Craig Harris and Music Tribes Unite.
0:19.0	Good morning, how are you doing?
0:21.0	I'm good, how are you?
0:22.0	Good, and can you do me a favor, pronounce your first name for me because I don't want to mess it up?
0:27.0	Yeah, I get it a lot, a lot, it's a shamey.
0:31.0	A shamey, okay.
0:33.0	Yeah, so it's said exactly how it's felt, but the E isn't E rather than like E sound, is that make sense?
0:40.0	Yeah, and actually it's funny, our friend Fiona, which we're going to talk about her in a second.
0:45.0	She always calls you Ash, so that's how I kind of think of you.
0:48.0	Yes, you can call me Ash, everybody calls me Ash, that's my nickname.
0:53.0	That's an easy one to remember.
0:55.0	So we met in London, I guess now it's been a few years, through our mutual friend Fiona Ross, who has, she's a very well known jazz singer, music journalist in London.
1:06.0	And you were singing in her band, and I was like, wow, I mean that whole band is awesome.
1:13.0	And so how long have you actually been working with Fiona doing that project?
1:18.0	I don't, I want to say four or five years now.
1:25.0	Which seems like a lot of time, and it hasn't felt like a lot of time.
1:30.0	But I'm pretty sure I started singing backing vocals for her in around 2017 or 2018.
1:35.0	Right.
1:36.0	And I think that that project is under her own name, right?
1:38.0	Just Fiona Ross.
1:39.0	Yeah, yeah, just Fiona Ross, yeah.
1:41.0	And I love the band.
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