I have to be a bit freak about it otherwise I don’t feel like it is mine”. I work on production as well, I am so hands on and I literally stay for hours drowned into different sounds until I find the right one. I think more of Portishead and industrial beats. “TLC and Destiny’s Child had a big influence on me but in my music you can hear it only in the melodies as the production is totally different. This is why on the cover of the EP there is the date 07.16.65 but Phlo wants to embody the Poster Girl combining simplistic, progressive, industrial beats with a new R&B wave.
Her debut EP is inspired by her spiritual mother Diana Vreeland, the iconic and groundbreaking Vogue Editor of the 60′s, who first coined the term “Youthquaker” to convey this cultural movement where teenagers dictated the fashion and music scene. “There is a lot of history in my blood, just like in my tattoos”, the way she laughs is real, funny, and young but from singing in a church choir to being a singer, Phlo’s ride towards the definition of “self-made American” was not an easy one. © EP Album, ‘Poster Girl’, Phlo Finister,īorn in Oakland to half Portuguese and Irish parents, Phlo strikes me with her sparkling smile and though she only has a hint of Egyptian blood, when you look into her eyes you immediately feel the Cleopatra glamour. Phlo Finister instantly walked me through the day and age she embodies in her style and music, and I’m about to find out why she deserves to be a Poster Girl just like Twiggy, Penelope Tree, and Edie Sedwick. I knew this young Californian artist, who is set to release her very first EP “Poster Girl” this month, found a strong connection with the Youthquaker movement of the 60′s and “Mod” sensibility but as I follow her, dressed in a Felder Felder black beaded mini dress and Prada shoes, the noise around me disappears and what I hear is modern jazz, British R&B, and The Who. As she walks through the crowd in search of a quiet spot, I feel like time is running backwards. It is yet another rainy summer day in London when I head inside of the Soho House to meet with Phlo Finister and the moment I see her, sitting in a corner waiting for me, I suddenly feel like Owen Wilson in Woody Allen’s “Midnight In Paris”.
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