The Rising Star: MS. HARMYNI STARR I have had the pleasure of meeting the very talented and beautiful Harmyni Starr, known to friends and family as Mrs. Sheka Arline. She is the most down to earth person I have come into contact with in a long time. She is definitely a shining STARR!
When I conducted the interview with Harmyni, she was very candid. She's been singing since she was 5 and said her grandmother even has early recordings of her singing. Her inspiration for music began with her father, who had a gospel group called the Gospel Twilights. "My father was an awesome singer". I loved the way she spoke about her family; and in asking about them, she informed me she lost her mom right before she actually decided to audition for American Idol in 2008. "It took so much out of me to lose her; it definitely affected my performance and believe that is why I didn't make it on the show." After losing her mom, she actually 'stopped singing' for a while; she tells me her mother began speaking to her telling her to start back singing. Her response below:
"I'm very spiritual...someone
spoke to me and I feel like it was my mother telling me to get back into
singing...so I did. I started making YouTube videos of me doing covers of other
songs under "Aries Hummingbird" [link below]. One day I posted one of
the videos on my Facebook account and that is when Ripp Ross contacted me. He suggested the name change so we could portray a different image." Mr. Ross was in the process of emerging from the underground himself when he discovered one of her videos, so he decided to take her under his wing and make her co-owner and partner of his company: City Slicca Entertainment (C.S.E.).
Harmyni Starr is a firm believer that "music should touch your soul before the lyrics even start". From the first note to the last, "it should touch you". I couldn't agree more because there are too many artists nowadays just putting something out to say they have something. I'm proud to say that Ms. Starr is far from your average...remaining humble, Mrs. Arline is on her way to becoming an international STARR!
You can check out her website here: Official Site for Harmyni Starr
You can also check her out on the links below:
Before there was #HarmyniStarr there was #AriesHummingbird...you can see her before the name change here.
However, you can purchase and download her NEWEST SINGLE as the beautiful #HarmyniStarr here: Waitin' by Harmyni Starr
With influences such as Whitney Houston, Patti Labelle, X-scape, Keyshia Cole, K. Michelle, Tamar Braxton, and Aretha Franklin, Harmyni is bound to be playing through your speaker systems for a long time coming. Don't be shy: click the links in this post...visit and follow her on her many sites. Tweet a shout out to her! Tell her where you read her interview or just to say 'hi'!
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Rachel Marie
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