GoldieLocks is one of the few Grime emcees making an impact on the scene. With her pic’n’mix style of, grime, electro and hip-hop, she has worked with a catalogue of artists spanning many musical genres. Sarah Louise Akwisombe is not just a pretty face, she is also a producer and hosts her own Grime night.
Born and bred in Croydon and according to GoldieLocks the best thing about her ends is “Dub Step” (a sub genre of the UK Garage with more emphasis on the bass). Her passion for spitting comes secondary to her first love affair of making beats. After attending a local music course, her tutors suggested she should add vocals to her beats - wham-bam we have the musical maestro that is GoldieLocks. She has been producing since her mid-teens and her song ‘Kid’ was a part of the ‘Adulthood’ soundtrack. So she should be one to know when a track is going to be shit-hot, her advice is: “When you are making your own music, you have to be your own judge. You got to think how it is going to be catchy. Sometimes you start something and you know it is going to be good.” She is a part of the Sick Kids, a Grime crew consisting of: Jackson Kid! Le Le and herself. The trio met whilst working at JD Sports, if she could amalgamate their personalities to create a super being, she plots: “My beat making, Leanne’s rapping and Kelly’s comedy genius.”
The twenty-three-year-old-quarter-Swede has been married for nearly four years and is a through and through hustler. She has her fingers in all the porridges: she self manages, plays two instruments, runs her own Grime night, produces her own t-shirts and has even worked at Starbucks. What is missing from the list? “I am quite a good cook,” she adds giggling and she epitomises “I’m Every Woman’” to a whole new level. So is it hard managing your own career and being a wife, she reveals: “I like being in control of it all and seeing the success I have made. It is a lot of things to do, but if you are not afraid of hard work then it is easy. There are some artists who cannot even book themselves a train ticket.”
She has collaborated with a collection of artists, including, Kate Nash and Tinchy Stryder. But she cites the rapper Example as her favourite and commented on what a “laugh” he was. He had the single ‘Vile’ a response to Lilly Allen’s ‘Smile,’ and has also tried his hand at stand-up comedy. She is currently signed to Pure Groove and the petit spitter insists she is still in control: “It is a publishing deal and that is another side to it. Pure Groove puts out really good music, they are still very much an independent company and think in the same way that I do.”
The blonde-haired-rapper has been strangely compared to the likes of Lilly Allen and Duffie. Marking no resemblance musically, a part from being white female artists, she insists that comparisons like that does not annoy her. “I get why they have to do it. They are trying to get people to listen to your music, but it can be annoying when it is all the time but you get used to it.” Being a female artist must have its constraints especially one in an all male scene, she explains: “If you are good at what you do then it does not really matter. Some people like my beats and some people might think my vocal is crap.” Her monthly Grime night, ‘A Hard Knock Wife’ at The Social (a club off Oxford Street) celebrated its first birthday in February, she says about its success: “There are not that many Grime nights, last time we had Jammer [Grime Producer] come down. When I first started it, it was with all my mates and they brought their mates and so on. There has always been a good vibe to it and it has never been a back-against-the-wall kind of thing.”
If you goggle her name it comes up with 424,000 hits and the secret ‘The Hills' and 'Gossip Girls' addict says: “It is probably not all me, it maybe a Goldielocks Salon or something. I don’t get people coming up to me and I don’t feel famous or anything.” Does GoldieLocks ever plan to fix Baby Bear’s chair? She casually says: “If I broke it, I guess I can fix.”
Born and bred in Croydon and according to GoldieLocks the best thing about her ends is “Dub Step” (a sub genre of the UK Garage with more emphasis on the bass). Her passion for spitting comes secondary to her first love affair of making beats. After attending a local music course, her tutors suggested she should add vocals to her beats - wham-bam we have the musical maestro that is GoldieLocks. She has been producing since her mid-teens and her song ‘Kid’ was a part of the ‘Adulthood’ soundtrack. So she should be one to know when a track is going to be shit-hot, her advice is: “When you are making your own music, you have to be your own judge. You got to think how it is going to be catchy. Sometimes you start something and you know it is going to be good.” She is a part of the Sick Kids, a Grime crew consisting of: Jackson Kid! Le Le and herself. The trio met whilst working at JD Sports, if she could amalgamate their personalities to create a super being, she plots: “My beat making, Leanne’s rapping and Kelly’s comedy genius.”
The twenty-three-year-old-quarter-Swede has been married for nearly four years and is a through and through hustler. She has her fingers in all the porridges: she self manages, plays two instruments, runs her own Grime night, produces her own t-shirts and has even worked at Starbucks. What is missing from the list? “I am quite a good cook,” she adds giggling and she epitomises “I’m Every Woman’” to a whole new level. So is it hard managing your own career and being a wife, she reveals: “I like being in control of it all and seeing the success I have made. It is a lot of things to do, but if you are not afraid of hard work then it is easy. There are some artists who cannot even book themselves a train ticket.”
She has collaborated with a collection of artists, including, Kate Nash and Tinchy Stryder. But she cites the rapper Example as her favourite and commented on what a “laugh” he was. He had the single ‘Vile’ a response to Lilly Allen’s ‘Smile,’ and has also tried his hand at stand-up comedy. She is currently signed to Pure Groove and the petit spitter insists she is still in control: “It is a publishing deal and that is another side to it. Pure Groove puts out really good music, they are still very much an independent company and think in the same way that I do.”
The blonde-haired-rapper has been strangely compared to the likes of Lilly Allen and Duffie. Marking no resemblance musically, a part from being white female artists, she insists that comparisons like that does not annoy her. “I get why they have to do it. They are trying to get people to listen to your music, but it can be annoying when it is all the time but you get used to it.” Being a female artist must have its constraints especially one in an all male scene, she explains: “If you are good at what you do then it does not really matter. Some people like my beats and some people might think my vocal is crap.” Her monthly Grime night, ‘A Hard Knock Wife’ at The Social (a club off Oxford Street) celebrated its first birthday in February, she says about its success: “There are not that many Grime nights, last time we had Jammer [Grime Producer] come down. When I first started it, it was with all my mates and they brought their mates and so on. There has always been a good vibe to it and it has never been a back-against-the-wall kind of thing.”
If you goggle her name it comes up with 424,000 hits and the secret ‘The Hills' and 'Gossip Girls' addict says: “It is probably not all me, it maybe a Goldielocks Salon or something. I don’t get people coming up to me and I don’t feel famous or anything.” Does GoldieLocks ever plan to fix Baby Bear’s chair? She casually says: “If I broke it, I guess I can fix.”
Images sourced from: www.myspace.com/goldielocks
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