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Kreyolicious Interview: LaVie, Singer – Kreyolicious.com

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From having her song “Your Love” featured on the Meagan Good and Tamara Bass-produced web series “All that Matters” to performing at the prestigious Jazz in the Gardens in Miami to rocking the Overtown Music and Arts festival, things are looking higher than up for Charline Murphy, the singer known as LaVie. Born and raised in Miami, the daughter of Haitian parents has a soulful voice that few with good sense would not stop to listen to. Who can she be compared to? Corinne Bailey? Jill Scott? Regina Belle?

In the song “Alive”, her voice is definitely Regina Belle-ish. She twirls her tongues and pulverizes that melody and those lyrics. When she’s performing live, on a stage, her passion is as obvious as her singing talent. Whether she’s sporting tomato-red hair or good-weather-blue hair, her voice is consistently refreshing.

She has a special message in the song “Human”, which she croons alongside fellow singers Kristine Alicia and Giel. “When you’re looking at me/You’re looking at right at you,” goes the lyrics. “The color of my skin doesn’t make me worst/The color of your skin doesn’t make give you extra worth.” So kumbaya.

Kreyolicious: How you did you get started off singing?

I have always loved music.

Kreyolicious: Your name is LaVie. That’s like “Life”. Why that name?

As a young girl, I didn’t value life. I remember attempting suicide by taking a bottle of pills and waking up the next day upset with God. After a while, I met my first mentor Amelia Scott and she helped me to change my perception on life and myself.

Kreyolicious: I really like how you wear your hair—short and blue. Have you always been this bold in terms of your personal fashion style?

I’ve always been a “rebel” meaning I’ve always done what i felt. I used to get in trouble with my mom a lot for that. [Laughter] I believe there is no one like me and no one can be a better me than me so I’m just me.

Kreyolicious: Who has influenced you vocal-wise?

Jill Scott and Ella Fitz Gerald are my faves.

Kreyolicious: Do you compose your own songs?

Yes, my husband Stephane Murphy work together. He produces and we write together.

Kreyolicious: Girl, do you visit Haiti?

Yes. My husband took me last year for my birthday. It was amazing. I plan on going again [this year].
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Kreyolicious: What do your peoples think about your pursuing a musical career?

My mother thought it was not a real career at first, but after hearing my first CD Life Music she had a change of heart.

Kreyolicious: Will your fans be getting an album from you soon? Or at least an EP?

Yes. I am currently working on two projects “The Island Girl EP” and “The Love Story” I don’t have a release date as of yet, but I’m working on it diligently.

[Photography Credit: Lottashots]

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K St. Fort
K St. Fort
ABOUT K. St Fort K. St. Fort is the Editor and Founder of, well, Kreyolicious.com and wishes to give you a heartfelt welcome to her site. She loves to read, write, and listen to music and is fascinated by her Haitian roots, and all aspects of her culture. Speaking of music, she likes it loud, really, really loud. Like bicuspid valve raising-loud. Her other love are the movies. She was once a Top 50 finalist for a student screenwriting competition, encouraging her to continue pounding the pavement. She has completed several screenplays, with Haiti as the backdrop, one of which tackles sexual abuse in an upper middle class Haitian family, while another has child slavery as its subject. She is currently completing another script, this time a thriller, about two sisters who reunite after nearly 10 years of separation. A strong believer in using films to further educational purposes, and to raise awareness about important subjects, she has made it a point to write about social issues facing Haiti, and making them an integral part of her projects. She has interviewed such Haitian-American celebrities as Roxane Gay, Garcelle Beauvais, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Briana Roy, Karen Civil, and many, many more. And that’s her writing this whole biographical sketch. She actually thinks writing about herself in the third person is cute. MY WEBSITE Kreyolicious ™: kree-ohl-lish-uh s: Surely an adjective…the state of being young, gorgeous, fine and utterly Haitian. Kreyolicious.com™, the hub for young, upwardly mobile Haitian-Americans, is akin to a 18th Century cultural salon but with a Millennium sensibility–an inviting lair, where we can discuss literature, music, problems facing the community, and everything on the side and in-between. Kreyolicious is the premier lifestyle, culture and entertainment blog and brand of the hip, young, trend-oriented, forward thinking Haitian-American. It’s the definite hot spot to learn more about Haiti our emerging identity as a people, and explore our pride and passion about our unique and vibrant culture. Within the site’s pages, Kreyolicious.com is going to engage you, empower you, and deepen your connection to everything Haitian: the issues, the culture, our cinema, the history, our cuisine, the style, the music, the worldwide community. Make yourself at home in my cultural salon. If you’re looking to learn more about Haiti, Kreyolicious.com invites you to board this trolley on a journey–on our journey. For me too, it is a process, a non-ending cultural odyssey. If you’re already acculturated, I can certainly learn something from you. We can learn from one other, for certain. With my site, Kreyolicious.com I look forward to inspiring you, to enriching you, and to participating alongside of you, in the cultural celebration. And being utterly kreyolicious. How do you wear your kreyoliciousness? On your sleeves, like I do? Kreyoliciously Yours, Your girl K. St. Fort, Ahem, follow me elsewhere!

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