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“She is a name for music fans to remember.” – Earmilk
“Genia immediately stands out on the celebratory track. From the moment the beat drops, she’s dropping bar after bar over the soul sample production like she’s a rapper in New York during the early 2000s … the secret is out. Genia is here and it doesn’t look like she’s leaving anytime soon.” – DEF PEN
April 19, 2024 – Genia, the uncategorizable 22 year-old singer/songwriter and fierce R&B phenom from the streets of Victorville, California, proudly presents her anxiously awaited new mixtape, 4AM IN THE VILLE, available on all platforms today via Def Jam Recordings. Listen HERE.
4AM IN THE VILLE draws listeners into her embrace. She processes regrets on “Just Fine,” flaunting her dynamic range and urging, “Turn it up.” Meanwhile, “Dear Life” tempers prominent electric guitar with ethereal piano as she ponders relationship ups and downs. Her high register echoes as she laments, “You don’t know how to love.”
She preceded the release with “Let Me Wander.” Right out of the gate, it gained traction at DSPs and received tastemaker applause. Beyond plugs from Def Pen, East Portland Blog, and more, Riff Magazine promised, “It will definitely get stuck in your head,” going on to attest, “Genia is only going to get bigger from here.”
Plus, the project boasts “Know!” UPROXX hailed it among “All The Best New R&B Music From This Week” and praised, “The uptempo record is perfect for the dancefloor.”
Genia is back, and it is 4AM IN THE VILLE now…
She kicked off 2024 with “Like That.” Another gift to fans was a stunning cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.” Genia added a touch of her own magic to the original, infusing the performance with a certain grit and spirit as the warm guitar tones were plucked on a Fender Strat. Global Grind touted the track on its “New Music Roundup.”
Genia has spent a lifetime using music as a form of therapy. “I feel like I make music for everybody,” she says. “But mainly for women to feel badass. I wanna feel like I have the power. I wanna feel like I’m that bitch. That was kind of my thing: to make bad bitch music, but also to make vulnerable music, almost like somebody’s reading my diary. If only one person finds peace in my music then I know I’ve done my job.”
ABOUT GENIA:
Genia rides for the underdogs. Fiery yet thoughtful with her pen, the 22-year-old makes music that, like her, can’t be put into a box. On her debut single, “Introducing” on Def Jam, she delivers a melodic manifesto over a speaker-rattling beat brimming with soulful samples and blaring horns. Is she a singer? Is she a rapper? Genia is whomever she wants to be. “I feel like I make music for everybody,” she says. “But mainly for women to feel badass. That was kind of my thing: to make bad bitch music, but also vulnerable music, almost like somebody’s reading my diary.” This raw approach comes from a lifetime of using music as therapy. Growing up in a turbulent household in Victorville, CA, Genia dreamt of escape. Through her grandmother, she found it first in Prince’s Purple Rain, and listening to consummate artists like Beyoncé and Lady Gaga inspired her to forge her own alter ego: a woman who’s as tough as she is creative, who handles her business. She was working at Walmart and studying to be a nurse when Covid hit. Amid the stress, she quit and turned to music. After striking TikTok gold in November 2020 with her version of Deborah Cox’s “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here,” Genia went hard — refining her vocals, writing, and dancing over the next two years. Now she’s deep in new music, with plenty more soul-bearing yet savage songwriting and nostalgic production on deck. And like all introductions, new Def Jam star Genia’s is just the beginning.
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