George Riley - "say yes (feat. Joe Armon-Jones)" from the 2021 self-released album interest rates, a tape.

She may only be 23-years-old, but West London-based artist George Riley draws on her lifetime of influences on her latest release, interest rates, a tape.

Her Jewish mother and Jamaican father would play R&B icons like Stevie Wonder, Aretha, and Sade in the house, and her dad was briefly a drummer and backing vocalist in '70s reggae group Steel Pulse. She channels all of that into interest rates, a tape, explaining toCrack Magazine, “This is me wanting to show the breadth of sounds that have inspired me, because I don’t subscribe to just one thing.”

Read the full post on KEXP.org

George Riley - "say yes (feat. Joe Armon-Jones)" from the 2021 self-released album interest rates, a tape.
She may only be 23-years-old, but West London-based artist George Riley draws on her lifetime of influences on her latest release, interest rates, a tape.
Her Jewish mother and Jamaican father would play R&amp;B icons like Stevie Wonder, Aretha, and Sade in the house, and her dad was briefly a drummer and backing vocalist in '70s reggae group Steel Pulse. She channels all of that into interest rates, a tape, explaining to<a href="https://crackmagazine.net/article/aesthetic/george-riley/"> Crack Magazine</a>, &ldquo;This is me wanting to show the breadth of sounds that have inspired me, because I don&rsquo;t subscribe to just one thing.&rdquo;
<a href="https://www.kexp.org/podcasts/song-of-the-day/2021/8/3/george-riley-say-yes-feat-joe-armon-jones/">Read the full post on KEXP.org</a>

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