Artist Profile

Artist Name: Chanel Smith

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Clothing: Fashion Forward, Pop Chic, Birght Colours, Colour Blocking. Somtimes it gets toned down with just a classic black look.

Lifestyle: Fast past, Travelling, Promoting, Socializing.

Album: The Next Chapter - The new album is going to express the new era of her life, after a recent visit to rehab, and celebrating her 20th birthday back in September, she wants this album to tell the audience the new part of her life and what she has to look forward to.

Genre: She has chosen the 'Pop' genre to focus her music into because it is her favourite genre. She listens to a lot of Pop artists like Rihanna, Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj. Pop is just so versatile, you can recreate different sounds and make them more modern.

History: Chanel actually went to the Univesity of Arts in London, she studied Fashion PR but with 2 years of working in a Fashion PR Firm, she decided to take a new direction and focuse on her singing career. Singing has always been what she has wanted to do since she was the age of 11, her mother actually entered her into a local singing competition and she won. So from there on, singing was her ambition and she worked with vocal coaches to improve her singing.

Inspirations: She is inspired by artists like Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. All of them have created hits after hits and continue to make them. They know how to keep the audience intact and want to  listen to their music, she really likes the fact that Madonna started off as this little innocent girl singing about sex 'Like A Virgin' and then from then to now, she has totally changed herself and her sound. She collaborates with younger artists like Britney in 'Me Against The Music' and Justin Timberlake in '4 Minutes' to gather new younger fans which is what makes her such an inspirations.