Day 1 Radio

This week BrandenLSK holds it down solo and talks with Dutch-Curaçaose R&B singer Nicole Bus. Many of you may have discovered her via her NPR Tiny Desk performance back in August, but she has been putting in the work for quite some time. In this conversation, Bus talks about growing up in Holland how the last 365 days, in particular, have changed her career and life.   1:25 Bus reveals that she and her team wrote and produced her entire debut album in Atlanta. She and Branden explore the idea that European listeners take Black music more seriously than American listeners.   7:15 Being half-Dutch and half-Curaçaose, Bus talks about how the two cultures have influenced her musical style. She later gets into how she started her musical journey after getting her first instrument as a child and actually making music in high school.  12:19 Bus explains the idea being her breakout single “You” and why she and producer Needlz decided to make a song uplifting Black men. She also reveals that she did not know that