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Kyndall doesn’t pretend to have everything figured out -- though she does know what she wants from her music career. But even that took time. “I wasn’t in a space where I necessarily knew who I was,” she says. “From 15 to 19, what do you know? Shoot! At 19 what do I know? I needed that time to grow into myself and live the narratives I would sing about.” The 19-year-old is talking about to spending the last few years signed to a major label, while trying to find her identity, like any young adult. When Kyndall arrived to the label as an ambitious, 16 year-old ingenue she was convinced her break would arrive immediately. The Houston-bred, R&B songstress quickly learned that she wasn’t ready for the spotlight. “I’d actually never been in a studio. I had the deal, but I can’t say I knew who I was, musically. I used to tell the label, ‘You’re going to put me out at 16, I'm not going to sit here and not have my music out and be shelved,’” she laughs. “Now, we’re in a place where the music is so solid. Looking back, I realize I needed that time to develop, mature and craft the way I wanted the world to hear my point of view. ” Equal parts sweet Southern belle and southern spitfire, Houston native, Kyndall didn’t grow up with ambitions of music stardom. As a child her mother, enrolled her at the Humphreys School of Musical Theatre for theatrical training. Kyndall landed her first of several shows at the age of seven— “‘The Wizard of Oz,’ a rite of passage for show kids,” she