For a few years Tatiana DeMaria was often known as a rocker, whose band TAT performed the Vans Warped Tour and opened for Joan Jett, Alice Cooper, the Offspring and others. More lately, nonetheless, the London born artist is displaying off her up to date R&B chops with a collection of singles — together with the brand new “Make Me Feel,” premiering solely beneath.
“I simply do a number of music,” DeMaria tells Billboard. “When I used to be making the TAT document as a youngster I used to be additionally producing some underground U.Okay. hip-hop, simply making beats and sound manufacturing tracks and stuff. That was achieved within the background and one other artistic outlet for me. I’m all the time writing and creating, so I’ve this physique of labor that is totally different from (TAT) however nonetheless one thing I like.”
DeMaria has demonstrated her new course on earlier singles equivalent to “Too Much” and “What It Is About You.” Interestingly, she didn’t have significantly lofty ambitions for “Make Me Feel.”
“I used to be intentionally setting about to put in writing a crap tune,” DeMaria acknowledges. “I had been on tour for awhile and hadn’t written for a minute. I bear in mind choosing up my guitar and going, ‘OK, let’s get again within the artistic zone. Let’s clear the pipes. Let’s write one thing actually crap and get it on the market.’ It’s only a good, old style f*** tune.
“So all of the strain was off. Then I took a break and went to the grocery retailer and I used to be nonetheless singing what I’d achieved. It was like, ‘Oh shit, I would truly just like the crap tune…'”
DeMaria has lined up a launch occasion for “Make Me Feel” on Oct. 13 on the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles. She hopes to have one other single out earlier than the top of the 12 months and should compile all of the latest releases into an EP. Currently she’s utterly unbiased, however DeMaria — whose lone solo album, Soho Lights, got here out throughout 2008 — is “simply beginning” to speak to labels about potential offers.
“Coming from the place I got here from and from such a particular sound in TAT, I feel it is laborious someday for individuals to grasp the place I’m going or what I need to do,” she says. “It’s necessary for me to construct that and put one thing on the market and take it to followers and construct it earlier than we usher in any companions. I discovered with taking conferences early on lots of people could be like, ‘Oh you are able to do this, you are able to do that…’ and it could lead again to the identical sound as TAT and the identical course — not that I do not like TAT, however I’ve by no means been one to need to make the identical document over and over and over. I like change. I need to develop up. So it is on me now to take this (music) to individuals and present them what I actually need to do.”
