Tinashe Cover Story Interview (February/March 2016) Complex Magazine (Ft. Tinashe)
The song "Tinashe Cover Story Interview" features Tinashe discussing her journey, artistry, and personal growth. It blends R&B and pop (#R&B). Released in 2016, it explores themes of identity, ambition, and resilience. Tinashe’s unique vocal style and production elements showcase her versatility, impacting the contemporary R&B scene.
With the support of her family, Tinashe survived growing up in the spotlight to become a burgeoning pop star, but she has to do this next part on her own.
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The dogs didn’t bark the night the notes were left at the front door of the Kachingwe residence.
The family of five lives in a cozy single-level home near the end of a not particularly well-lit cul-de-sac in La Crescenta, almost 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
“It was crazy,” says Tinashe, whose full name is Tinashe Jorgenson Kachingwe.
“In the morning there were these notes on the door. ‘Call me. Oh my god, I love you.’”
The Kachingwes—Michael and Aimie and their children, Tinashe and her younger brothers, Thulani, 18, and Kudzai, 16—have lived there since 2003.
Tinashe may be a rising pop star—she garnered Best New Artist nominations at the 2015 BET Awards and Soul Train Awards, and went platinum in 2014 with her single “2 On”—but the family maintains a modest middle-class existence outside the clamor of the city. This sort of encroachment is unusual.
“It’s creepy,” says Kudzai.
“We have dogs,” offers Michael, seeking to calm any lingering anxiety. “But the dogs didn’t bark,” Tinashe chimes in from her seat at the end of the living room couch, next to her brothers.
“They must’ve been really quiet,” Aimie concludes. It’s ten past nine on a Tuesday night, two days before Thanksgiving. The light in the room is soft yellow and the dogs—an energetic German Shepherd mix and a Shiba Inu—initially riled up over the arrival of a guest, are now silent.
At 22, Tinashe has already released four mixtapes of dreamy R&B, some of it self-produced and nearly all of it recorded in her bedroom; one critically acclaimed album, 2014’s Aquarius; and another, Joyride, on the way.
But the lithe young woman with the perfect pout and keen eyes still lives at home, something interviewers like to joke about. What about boys? Where do you smoke?—that sort of thing.
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The dogs didn’t bark the night the notes were left at the front door of the Kachingwe residence.
The family of five lives in a cozy single-level home near the end of a not particularly well-lit cul-de-sac in La Crescenta, almost 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
“It was crazy,” says Tinashe, whose full name is Tinashe Jorgenson Kachingwe.
“In the morning there were these notes on the door. ‘Call me. Oh my god, I love you.’”
The Kachingwes—Michael and Aimie and their children, Tinashe and her younger brothers, Thulani, 18, and Kudzai, 16—have lived there since 2003.
Tinashe may be a rising pop star—she garnered Best New Artist nominations at the 2015 BET Awards and Soul Train Awards, and went platinum in 2014 with her single “2 On”—but the family maintains a modest middle-class existence outside the clamor of the city. This sort of encroachment is unusual.
“It’s creepy,” says Kudzai.
“We have dogs,” offers Michael, seeking to calm any lingering anxiety. “But the dogs didn’t bark,” Tinashe chimes in from her seat at the end of the living room couch, next to her brothers.
“They must’ve been really quiet,” Aimie concludes. It’s ten past nine on a Tuesday night, two days before Thanksgiving. The light in the room is soft yellow and the dogs—an energetic German Shepherd mix and a Shiba Inu—initially riled up over the arrival of a guest, are now silent.
At 22, Tinashe has already released four mixtapes of dreamy R&B, some of it self-produced and nearly all of it recorded in her bedroom; one critically acclaimed album, 2014’s Aquarius; and another, Joyride, on the way.
But the lithe young woman with the perfect pout and keen eyes still lives at home, something interviewers like to joke about. What about boys? Where do you smoke?—that sort of thing.
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