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Get To Know Teedra Moses

After an intense Atlanta show Teedra Moses carved out time to chat with BOSSIP about her confidence as an unapologetic grown as s***” songstress.

“It’s not something distinctively new that I’m trying to give out, I think I’m just confident now,” said Moses. “I’m just like ‘yo this is what it is’. I’m not trying to win you over rather than I’m welcoming you. You’re invited. If you come, you come, if you don’t, nobody’s mad.

[It’s] kind of like a level of confidence that I didn’t have when I started because it was new. Now I’m just grown as sh*t and I’m very secure in who I am and what I’m representing and that lane that that is. I’m not trying to jump in anybody else’s lane. So I think at this point it’s just a little bit more solid.”

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It’s clear when she’s on stage that she is indeed solid in her craft, even through what she admittedly states was a turbulent show. That however didn’t stop her talent and the genuineness of her music from shining.

“Really it was a bit of a mess, a lot of the behind the scenes things were really falling apart,” Teedra told BOSSIP. “But when I get on stage I don’t really think about that. I think about the connection with the people. It doesn’t really matter what’s going on behind me. I don’t concern myself with that when I get on stage. I really want to make somebody feel good because they didn’t come here for my problems, they came here to get away from their own.”

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Her diverse fanbase reflects this notion of authenticity and Teedra is never surprised by who she finds singing along to her music because her honesty attracts a broad range of different people.

“From the beginning there’s been such a broad range. Like, you have ratchet girls with gold teeth and tattoos, lawyers, doctors, stush girls that don’t wanna show their stush side. Tough guys, to gay guys singing along. White; black. Every time I do a show in New York there’s a group of people who come from Paris, I’m never surprised. It’s very hard for me to be surprised. Because what I’ve learned is that if you make music from an honest place, it honestly can reach anybody. There’s no face to it.”

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The New Orleans native gives a nod to her hometown for adding that sense of honesty to her sound.

See how she says the city affected her musical growth on the next page.

“New Orleans is one of the realest places you’re gonna go to in America, probably New Orleans and Baltimore are the realest places I’ve ever been to. And I think my sound is very honest because I’m from a place where you have to be a real person to function. So I think New Orleans gave a bit of sass and honesty to my sound.”

And although her sound has been cultivated for years, Teedra didn’t always look to the mic for her career goals. She began as a celebrity stylist, helping out her best friend who was also a stylist but it took a major break in her life to open up the door to music.

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“There was no goal of singing. I’m a very in the moment person… My children’s father was a rapper, Ras Kass, and he would bring home beats [and] I really liked them. I could sing all over [them]. So I broke my leg doing styling once and I couldn’t go out and work and I was on workman’s comp and that was my time to slide into the music while I had some income coming in to pay my rent. So that’s when I made the transition.”

Now, years into her music career, she continues to spread her creative spirit with fans and family, including her twin sons who carry her artistic perspective and continue to inspire her musically.

“My children are so raw, the twins. They have great ears. They put me on to music, I put them onto music. They’ll put me on to someone like Hiatus Kaiyote and I’ll put them on to somebody like Bas. And it’s strange because you would think it’d be the other way around. We do that for one another and we play each other our music and we critique one another but for the most part we are an artistic family and everything almost every conversation is about artistic growth.

So they inspire me just in being young and hungry and excited about the newness they feel in becoming a creative. And that reminds me of when I was that age and it reminds me of my responsibility now to never forget that’s what I’m here doing. I’m here to explore this creative thing that god blessed with me. They remind me of that all the time.”

For now, the creative is focusing on promoting her music. Over the next year be sure to look out for music videos and tour dates dropping.

“Well I put out Cognac And Conversations August 7th. I put out a mixtape after that on December 7th called Clairvoyant, it’s really dope. So this year I’m going to really focus on promoting that because I think that people put out albums and give up on them after 3 months. I understand people have short attention spans, so do I.

Next year [I’ll be] making videos, going out on tour, promoting the album. Maybe at the end of this year I’ll have more music but I’m not concentrating on that right now. Right now I’m just concentrating on presenting the music because I don’t want my music to just come out and then be forgotten and people [are]begging for more. And I love the audience but that’s not what I’m doing. I want my music to sustain.”

Check out her music below and let us know what you think!

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