When Beyoncé deems your music 'flawless,' you know you've probably made it. That's more or less what happened to the sister R&B duo, Chloe x Halle, when they passed their latest album to Beyoncé for feedback.
," went viral and caught her attention. Since then, they have opened for Beyoncé and Jay-Z's world tour, wrote the theme song forThe Little Mermaid.
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro spoke to Chloe and Halle Bailey about writing music and pursuing both acting and singing together, delaying the release of their album to call attention to the ongoing protests against police brutality and racism and Halle's upcoming role as a Disney princess. Listen to the radio version at the audio link above, and read on for highlights of the interview.
We decided to postpone it because with everything going on in the world right now, we just didn't want the attention to be on us. We wanted the attention to be on getting justice for our brothers and sisters who have lost their lives to police brutality, and we felt that was more important, to use our platform for that. We're just really happy and proud to see our other peers doing the same, and we're all letting our voices be heard and we're not backing down.
So that's when dad sat us down at the table like"Look, you all can create your own music as well." And so that's exactly what we did. And from then on, we just kind of progressed gradually together. Halle is the best music partner I could ever have. I appreciate how we bring two completely different perspectives — because we are two different people — to the music. We don't try to be the same, but we make our differences work and the synergy is pretty electric.
Sophia Alvarez Boyd and Hadeel Al-Shalchi produced and edited the audio of this interview. Jon Lewis adapted it for the Web.
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