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Mykki Blanco announces debut album
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 21 July 2016
Mykki Blanco has announced that he will release his Woodkid and Jeremiah Meece produced debut album, ‘Mykki’, on 16 Sep.
“I realised as an artist I need to focus on myself and on my work”, says Blanco of getting into the mindset to make the record. “Arguments with people online distract from that. I used to have a problem with the media trying to define me, either as a drag queen, or a transvestite, as a homosexual rapper, a transsexual or an HIV positive popstar, but most people need labels and my true fans know who I am and what I’m about”.
The first track from the album, ‘The Plug Won’t’, was released yesterday. Explaining the lyrics, Blanco says: “We’ve all fallen in love under the influence. We’ve all realised in the morning it was just the drugs leaving us numb, confused and empty”.
You can catch Blanco live in the UK at the following dates this October too:
4 Oct: Brighton, Patterns
5 Oct: London, XOYO
6 Oct: Bristol, Exchange
7 Oct: Sheffield, The Harley
8 Oct: Manchester, Soup Kitchen
Listen to ‘The Plug Won’t’ here: