{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Ff4966c66-b07e-489f-b2f0-d3f2c60f71a1","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"381: What you can\u2019t see makes you bolder \u2013 Lachi","description":"Sometimes the bolder move of coming out of the closet is something that you can\u2019t see and others can\u2019t see in you. When we say, \u201cSee,\u201d we mean, you should take that word literally. Yet, being legally blind doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t do the bolder things you want to do, go the places you want to go, or make the dreams come true that you want to make come true. It simply means you become even bolder in pursuit of the life that you desire.\r\nPop singer on the rise, Lachi, an emerging EDM singer, songwriter, dancer is making ripples that could easily turn into a Tsunami in the music world. While other may want to focus on her disability, she\u2019s focused on making shit happen in her one life to live, because for her seeing it in her mind\u2019s eye is believing that she can be a music artist success. This is her candid, fun, raw, real, and a little bit trashy talk at times story about coming out of her closet to be the performer she wants to be and the women that is inspiring other women to say, \u201cWhat I want\u2026!\u201d\r\nAbout Lachi\r\nPop singer Lachi and emerging Danish EDM producer Julian Javan unite again on \u201cWhat I Want (Dat Body),\u201d their sexy new club track inspired by the wave of fierce women representatives redefining today\u2019s political scene.\u00a0 \u201cToday\u2019s women are more than pretty little dolls, we are bosses and power players taking charge of this world,\u201d declares Lachi.\u00a0 She says when it came to writing her latest song, she imagined all 131 \u2014 the number of women now serving in both chambers of the 116th\u00a0 \u2014 walking into a club and picking out their choice of men.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m the type who can walk up to that cute guy at the bar and buy him a drink,\u201d she explains. \u201cI think all my fearless ladies are the same way.\u00a0 That\u2019s what being a woman today is about.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWhat I Want (Dat Body)\u201d is being released in the USA through Big Management and internationally through Warner Music\u2019s Quattro and is available for purchase on iTunes, Amazon, and all other major retailers. It is also available for streaming through Pandora and Spotify.\r\nLachi knows about overcoming barriers in order to achieve her goals.\u00a0 She was born legally blind into a first-generation Nigerian immigrant family. \u201cWe moved around a lot to make ends meet.\u00a0 I grew up in the blackest parts of Philly, the whitest parts of Upstate New York, and I southern-belled it in North Carolina. No matter where we were, I was always so different from everyone else. It was tough to make friends.\u201d\r\nShe refused to let her disability define her. \u201cI have always hated the \u2018wow, she\u2019s blind AND can do things!\u2019-type BS.\u00a0 I was raised to believe that no one was going to be throwing me any pity parties.\u201d\r\nEducation was a priority for her parents and after high school, Lachi attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\u00a0 It was there that she began performing live music. \u201cI would sit at the piano in my dorm lobby and play for all the drunken frat kids as they returned home,\u201d she laughs. Word of the talented vocalist spread around campus and eventually, she had a large-enough following that she was invited to perform small venues in town.\u00a0 When she moved east to attend NYU, she continued performing in New York City.\r\nToday, Lachi is an international pop, EDM and soul artist, as well as a songwriter and producer.\u00a0 She has worked on numerous projects including the single, \u201cRude,\u201d with rapper Snoop Dogg and \u201cFar\u201d with trance producer Markus Schulz, featured on his\u00a0We Are The Light\u00a0album.\r\nShe writes songs from the perspective of a smart, empowered female, incorporating thought provoking, emotive themes (as in her \u201cLiving A Lie\u201d single with Styles P) to kitschy compositions (as in her track \u201cAllegedly\u201d).\r\n\u201cWhat I Want (Dat Body)\u201d is Lachi\u2019s second collaboration with Julian Javan.\u00a0\u00a0Their previous single, \u201cNamaste,\u201d released in spring 2018, was a passionate, high energy, EDM track that blended Pop with hints of Mombathon.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4b9b6c41-474a-4fd0-a374-cbb2a7aa23a4/1400x1400_uncloseted_artwork-01-573.jpg"}