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Lylit
12+ albums
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Blonde-haired. Blue-eyed. Statuesque physique. Foreign pedigree. Soul singer? With the modern retro-soul revival ushering in a sea of British Ruth Browns, there might be a tricky urge to assume you already know who the singer-songwriter-producer-multi-instrumentalist known as Lylit is. Guaranteed, you would be wrong. One listen to her Kedar Entertainment Group debut, Evasion, and you‚ll know there has never been anyone quite as singularly inventive as the genre-defying, multi-hyphenated Lylit in a generation. With the neo-British invasion coming to a close, it's Lylit's turn to revolutionize the industry as visionary Kedar Massenburg's (Erykah Badu, D‚Angelo, Kem, etc.) next iconic discovery. While Lylit is European, she hails from Austria, far away from that Northern soul bastion across the English Channel. The 25 year-old musician shares the soul tradition of having honed her initial promise under a church steeple, serving as the organist and founding and directing the first gospel choir ever heard in the hills of her Austrian countryside. She was 12 at the time, already a vet on the keys, which the precocious prodigy began playing by age four. Inspired when the young musician heard gospel music for the first time, a spark was ignited and a hunger for music in the African American tradition was born. Not that such material was plentiful in the birthplace of Mozart, Beethoven, and Strauss and internationally renowned as a classical music center. Undeterred, in the absence of
