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" Instagram is a personal subscription. It's like your own personal magazine. It's like doing a photo shoot for no money, which is cool. "
Goapele
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" I say that I do soul, R&B music. I have so many influences, from Billie Holiday, Nina Simone to Stevie Wonder and Prince and even Al Green and Bjork. And a lot of hip hop music has influenced me a lot - you know - De La Soul and Digital Underground and A Tribe Called Quest. "
Goapele
Music
Me
Know
" I don't wear that much makeup. I'll do a little concealer here and there and apply some mascara. It just depends on how I'm feeling that day, but I try and go days without makeup just because I think it's healthier for skin to breathe. "
Goapele
Makeup
Skin
Think
" I feel happy with myself when I go to the steam room and steam my face. But truth be told, my ultimate beauty indulgence is lip balm - I can't go an hour without lip balm. "
Goapele
Beauty
Face
Happy
" When I feel better looking in the mirror, it makes me feel more uplifted. I feel like what that image has been has shifted in different ways, and that's probably why I'm always changing: because I start getting bored, and I don't like feeling locked into anything. "
Goapele
Me
Better
Feel
" There were a lot of anti-apartheid rallies and marches and concerts that we would go to as a family. And music was a big part of that. It was never just the politics. "
Goapele
Big
Never
Family
" There are a lot of classic Goapele tracks that are obviously me. And I'm also just trying to keep evolving and grow as an artist. I've always had a wish list of producers I wanted to work with. I just wait until the feeling is mutual and go into the studio to see what we can come up with. "
Goapele
Grow
Me
Wish
" Mos is a true artist who has a story to tell and gives back through his music. He remixed my song 'Different' in 2005, and the song we're working on now will be one of my future projects. "
Goapele
Song
True
Music
" Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That's what I try to do both in the studio and on stage. "
Goapele
Soul
Body
Good
" I wanted it to be back to a state where it felt like it was thriving, so I think that my hair's happiest natural, and there's that hairstyle for everyone where you feel like, 'My hair is agreeing with this,' so I just cut it off recently again, and I'm going back natural. "
Goapele
Feel
Think
Everyone
" Sometimes it's isolating, but just being in the music industry that is just dominated by men, I think it means I have to be comfortable and confident in myself and not really care that people think I'm bossy and opinionated and also try and balance that energy. "
Goapele
People
Balance
Men
" Sometimes I'm just like, 'I cannot hold onto this anymore,' and it's time to say something. And at the end of the day, I've just got to let it go and be true to myself. Whatever comes out comes out. "
Goapele
Day
Time
End
" I'm looking to immerse myself more in the entertainment community and possibly get into doing some acting. Music is my first love, what I was most naturally drawn to and choose to study. Getting into the acting world is like a new exciting challenge. "
Goapele
Community
Love
World
" Kanye and I spoke of working together and started an idea that we didn't get to finish. "
Goapele
Together
Idea
Finish
" I enjoy being able to do different kinds of music, not just to be eclectic but because those are all a part of me. "
Goapele
Music
Enjoy
Different
" As I get older, my perspective changes, and I just see how relationships aren't always what they appear to be. It's one of those sad but true things. We can see sometimes when people are becoming distant in all the things that create breaking apart, as painful as it is, and at the same time, still appreciating that person. "
Goapele
Time
Changes
People
" I feel, in my live shows, I can be as dynamic as I want. It's my comfort zone. When I get in the studio, it's more of a solitary experience, which can be good creatively. "
Goapele
Good
Live
Experience
" How I started my musical career, officially, was really, like, my family and I deciding to put out, you know, the 'Closer' album that started really small, you know, with a vision that we'd make it pass there. "
Goapele
You
Vision
Small
" I did a track with Khao, out of Atlanta, who's worked with T.I. Did a track with Maylay, who did a lot with John Legend's album. I got in the studio with Kanye West; we did a song. The dedication for the career takes a lot of work, but if you love it, it's worth it. "
Goapele
Song
Legend
Love
" I'm thankful that my daughter's father has allowed me to do what I do because that really makes a difference. I do believe a woman can have it all. "
Goapele
Daughter
Me
Thankful
" I'd been doing shows, but I slowed down because I had a daughter and got to spend some time having more of a family life. "
Goapele
Time
Life
Got
" I think police brutality has been going on since - I don't know - ever since I can remember and, you know, hearing about it in my childhood. "
Goapele
Know
Police
Remember
" Africa doesn't look like it's changed that much to me since I first went in '94. There is still a major economic divide, but the rights of Africans have changed and progressed. "
Goapele
Rights
Look
Africa
" Even if a song has shallow lyrics, there's something that you feel, regardless of what their lyrics are. "
Goapele
Feel
You
Song
" When I first was putting out music, I was like, 'I don't want to be overly sexy or do too much with the imaging or show too much skin, and I want to make sure my lyrics are balanced.' "
Goapele
Skin
Too Much
Want
" Whenever I have short ,it's important for me to be inspired by people with short hair. "
Goapele
Short
People
Hair
" I didn't want to be taken advantage of and burnt out in the industry. I worked with my family really closely, so I was able to get that respect in the industry. So now I feel that I can let my guard down. People know who I am; I can be myself. I can be more versatile, and I can wear what I want. "
Goapele
People
Family
I Am
" It's always liberating to feel like I'm changing my hair and know that my fans are supporting that. I like to feel like I'm really expressing myself, and when people embrace it, it feels like an authentic connection. "
Goapele
People
Hair
Connection
" I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough. "
Goapele
Enough
Nothing
Understand
" There are some parents who always have their daughter's hair whipped. Mine wasn't always like that, but I appreciate that both my parents were into me having natural hair, so they did find Anota Scott, who I was going to for my cornrows and wrapping last year and a couple years before that. "
Goapele
Appreciate
Daughter
Hair
" I want to create a different kind of legacy. "
Goapele
Legacy
Want
Create