Saturday, March 03, 2007

 

Uffie




...Uffie's
shoutin Uffie's
banging...








The self crowned queen of minimalised rap, who found a world-wide audience through MySpace, is neither shouting nor banging. Her style is pared down, deconstructing rap conventions by virtue of an almost whispered staccato delivery.

Uffie, real name Anna-Catherine Hartley, was influenced by the big beats of the South, growing up in Miami she moved to Paris to pursue a career in fashion.
For one of her fashion events, she booked French DJ Feadz and the two hit it off immediately. When Feadz and fellow producer Mr Oizo needed a vocalist for one of their new projects they invited Uffie to perform vocals, the song ‘Pop The Glock’ was the combined result.

In 2006, she debuted with the singles ‘Pop the Glock’ and ‘Ready to Uff’, released on French electro label Ed Banger Records (The people behind French electro stalwarts ‘Daft Punk’) Two more new tracks from Uffie, ‘Hot Chick’ and ‘In Charge’ became available through online MP3 blogs in July.

The 18 year old potty mouthed chanteuse, behaving like the kid sister of Princess Superstar or the great grand daughter of Peaches, has drawn much attention for the song “ready to uff” which consists of little more than a tirade of repetitive expletives.

“To me it’s just ******* powerful... I just say what girls think but are too scared to admit”

Uffie could be the next M.I.A (the Sri Lankan Mercury Prize nominee) if all goes well or the next Jentina (famously disastrous rapping failure) if all doesn’t go well. Jentina was lambasted by the rap community for lyrics not dissimilar to Uffie’s and went from being EMI’s one to watch and NME’s “best thing since the Sugababes” to being unceremoniously dumped by her record label and owning a MySpace page with one friend on it.

You can check out Uffie’s much more visited MySpace page here…

www.myspace.com

Uffie is working on an album due out in 2007 and promises a wider repertoire than her previous four letter word monologues.

MP3: Uffie - Ready To Uff

MP3: Uffie - Pop The Glock

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