Features : Queen Daly puts an honest, joyful soul into her own brand of pop

Queen Daly is starting a new career in pop music, and she’s beginning with songs she wrote a few years ago, one in particular, “Holla at Me.” Her reasons are both professional and personal.

Professional: “It wasn’t promoted then, and so it’s this time that I’m promoting it.”

“I have a lot of new material, but I still want to go ahead and promote that first,” she said. “I feel like that hasn't gotten the recognition that song needs.”

Personal: It’s about a young man (17 or 18) with whom she fell in love, as a young woman, shortly after immigrating to the United States from Nigeria. She gave up everything for that boy: a seven-bedroom house, money, cars.

All of that would mean nothing except that the songs she has made from her experiences are honestly great pop music, with fun, lively beats and lyrics. They contain no bitterness. Queen Daly has fun with who she is and how she has lived.

From “Holla at Me”:

Don’t you worry, you are my babe
No matter how bad you are babe I got you
You can count on me, you can count on me
You can holla at me, you can holla at me

“Holla” she pronounces in her accented English with the stress on the second syllable, hah-LAH, “holla at me,” and it adds charm to an already enriching musical experience for the listener.

She says the young man was a way for her to recommit to her own life, “to find out what I was meant to be.” What she was meant to be is someone who can sing ironic love songs in a strong, soft contralto voice. She is in control now.

She released “Holla at Me” and several other songs at about the same time, 2016, and all of them seem like they are on the same theme: the young man she fell in love with “at first sight,” when she was almost fresh off the plane in Houston.

Both motives, professional and personal, enter into her explanation of why she is actively promoting her music now.

“I want to use this to be known and to get ready for my new album. My album is ready. It's mixed and mastered and ready to go. But I have to use this first,” she said.

“This is my first signature. This is the only thing I have achieved in 16 years,” meaning, she says, the life she gave up for the boy with whom she fell in love, and the years she spent on him.

“The world needs to hear what he’s done to me and how I lost everything.”

She laughs when she says that, an honest laugh, deep and genuine, not because she is making some kind of joke, but because she regrets nothing, and she is laughing at the boy and herself. What she did, she did honestly. She was in love, and that was everything, and for love she was willing to give up everything.

But the boy, and the man he became, were no good, and that, too, is honest.

“He was just a challenge,” she says. He was just someone that God sent her way so she can find that she can meet extreme challenges in this universe.

The other songs she has out play with other aspects of the young man and her life, and what she is doing now. From “I Know Where I Wanna Be”:

I got trouble back home, can’t go back home for nothing
Then why I’m working on my masterpiece
It takes me to know where I wanna be
I know where I wanna be, I know where I wanna be

“I want my music to be known by the world, by the universe, because it isn't just music,” she said. “My music is my signature to my soul.”

She sums up: “I’m just a simple chick with a massive heart, I think.” And she laughs.

Stay connected to Queen Daly on all platforms for new music, videos, and social posts, and enjoy with her the trip she and her heart take through the universe.

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