Angel Haze

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Angel Haze (2013)
Angel Haze (2013)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
new York
  UK 58 10/20/2012 (2 weeks)
Battle Cry (with Sia )
  UK 70 03/22/2014 (2 weeks)

Angel Haze (* 1991 in Detroit ; real name Raeen Angel Wilson ) is an American rapper .

biography

Angel Haze is of part Native American descent (her Cherokee name is Raee'n Wahya ) and grew up without her father in Detroit in the Greater Apostolic Faith Pentecostal community in Virginia . She wrote down her experiences with traumatic experiences and rape first in diaries in poetry and after breaking with the church at the age of 16 also in rap texts. Haze moved to New York to study neurology, but then turned to rap music. She released several mixtapes and the EP Reservation on the Internet . Due to the success Island Records became aware of her and in August 2012 she signed a recording deal. Shortly thereafter, her first single appeared about her hometown New York , which hit the charts in Great Britain. The album Reservation was offered as a free download.

Angel Haze at the Norwegian Øyafestivalen on August 10, 2013

Her name was often mentioned in the music broadcasters' forecasts of who would make the breakthrough in 2013. She was one of the ten candidates for MTV Brand New for 2013 and ranked third in the BBC Sound of 2013 survey . But it took a whole year until the release of their official debut album: Dirty Gold was only released at the turn of the year 2013/14 and was then only able to place itself in the Heatseeker charts for new artists. The collaboration on the album with the Australian Sia Furler with the title Battle Cry was an even smaller success in Great Britain.

Private life

Angel Haze is named after the porn actress Jenna Haze , in conjunction with her middle name Angel ; In 2012, the Guardian described her as pansexual . In her freestyle rap of Macklemore's song Same Love at the end of 2013 she openly expresses herself about her queer way of life and the problems she got with her conservative mother as a result. She defines herself in rap: “No, I'm not gay , not straight , and sure as hell I'm not bisexual”; she advocates accepting herself and emphasizes: "And the only thing to be done is to put love first".

In 2015, Haze describes itself as asexual ( agender ) and claims gender-neutral pronouns . In a 2016 interview with the Evening Standard , she said that she did not care whether she was referred to with male or female pronouns; she is of no gender, instead "an experiment".

Discography

Albums

  • 2013: Dirty Gold
  • 2015: Back to the Woods
  • 2016: reservation

EPs

  • 2012: New York
  • 2013: Spotify Sessions

Mix tapes

  • 2011: King
  • 2012: Voice
  • 2012: reservation
  • 2012: Classick

Singles

  • 2012: New York
  • 2013: Echelon (It's My Way)
  • 2014: Battle Cry (feat. Sia )
  • 2015: Impossible
  • 2015: Babe Ruthless
  • 2015: Moonrise Kingdom
  • 2016: Resurrection
  • 2017: No Limits
  • 2018: Brooklyn

Guest Posts

Web links

Commons : Angel Haze  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: UK, USA. Retrieved March 28, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Tom Lamont: Interview - Angel Haze: “My mum knew I was going to tell everything”. In: The Guardian . February 22, 2014, accessed March 28, 2020; Quote: "Long before she merged her middle name with the sobriquet of a porn star to become Angel Haze, Haze was Raeen Angel Wilson, born in Detroit in 1991."
  3. ^ Jacob Brown: Timely: Native Voice. In: New York Times Blog . November 26, 2012, accessed March 28, 2020
  4. ↑ Leonie Cooper: Haim, Angel Haze, Tom Odell head up MTV Brand New for 2013 shortlist. In: New Musical Express . November 28, 2012, accessed March 28, 2020.
  5. ^ Greg Cochrane: BBC Sound of 2013: Angel Haze. In: BBC . January 2, 2013, accessed March 28, 2020.
  6. ↑ Editor: Angel Haze. ( Memento from March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: DMVculture. October 6, 2011, accessed March 28, 2020; Quote: "Taking her artist name, Angel Haze, from her favorite pornstar, Jenna Haze (yes, she's openly Bi) and combining it with her own middle name, Angel, she began to do just that."
  7. ↑ Hermione Hoby: Angel Haze: “Right now, no one can beat me”. In: The Guardian . September 2, 2012, accessed March 28, 2020.
  8. ↑ Nisha Lilia Diu: Interview: Angel Haze, the rapper fighting rape culture. In: Telegraph.co.uk . October 13, 2013, accessed March 28, 2020.
  9. ↑ Lyrics: Same Love (Freestyle) - Angel Haze. In: Genius.com . July 18, 2014, accessed March 28, 2020; Quote: "Release Date: October 22, 2013 [...] No, I'm not gay, no I'm not straight, and I sure as hell am not bisexual [...] And the only thing to do is put love first" .
  10. ↑ David Smyth: Angel Haze, interview: “At home, I'm dead. But on stage, I'm God ”. In: Standard.co.uk . January 15, 2016, accessed March 28, 2020; Quote: “Last year the musician expressed a preference for gender-neutral pronouns, identifying as agender. [...] 'If you call me' him 'or' her 'it doesn't matter to me. I don't consider myself of any sex. I consider myself an experience '. "
personal data
SURNAME Haze, Angel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wahya, Raee'n; Wilson, Raykeea (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rapper
DATE OF BIRTH 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan , United States