Before we read the best Kehlani Quotes, know about her inspiring Journey and Networth 2020, let’s also know a bit more about her.
Who is Kehlani?
Kehlani (Full Name – Kehlani Ashley Parrish) is an American Songwriter, Singer, Dancer and Record Producer. She was born in Oakland.
She is famous for her upfront style in everything she does and her fans admire her so much for who she is. Kehlani is a passionate artist. She initiated her career with dancing but due to a knee injury, she shifted her attention to singing which proved to be a blessing in disguise. She was a finalist on the popular show ‘America’s Got Talent’ and she sang with her idol Stevie Wonder and became good friends with Nick Cannon.
Her loss in the competition took a toll on her and she almost said no to singing but thankfully bounced back strongly and took the mic again after 6 months. Rest, as we know, is history.
Kehlani’s Networth – Aprox $5 Million as of 2020 (Including her startup)
More About Kehlani’s Childhood and Her Journey so far:
Kehlani was adopted by her Aunt and that’s how she spent majority of her childhood. Her mother had a drug addiction and served time in prison when she was adopted by her Aunt. Kehlani’s father also had a drug addiction and died when she was a toddler. She completed her academics from ‘The Oakland School for the Arts’ where she initially practiced and learnt dance,particularly ballet and modern dance.
Kehlani was reportedly in relationship with Kyrie Irving which was later confirmed and found to be true.
In March 2016, Canadian musician PartyNextDoor posted a picture of her on Instagram signalling they were in bed together which caused a media controversy across social media. She was widely criticised as cheating on her partner Kyrie Irving, but later Kehlani took to social media and clarified ‘no one was cheated on and the fact that had broken up’ whereas Kyrie on the other hand also tweeted and confirmed there were not together and penned an apology for his harsh words used for her.
Some of the best highlights of Kehlani’s career so far including her albums and nominations:
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You Should Be Here (Album, 2015)
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Gangsta (Song, 2016)
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Honey (Song, 2017)
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Grammy Awards (2016 and 2018) – Nominated
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Nights Like This (Song, 2019)
Her Sexuality:
In 2018, she clarified her sexuality on Twitter, stating, “I’m queer. Not bi, not straight. I’m attracted to women, men, REALLY attracted to queer men, non-binary people, intersex people, trans people. lil poly pansexual papa hello good morning. Does that answer your questions?
Kehlani has given birth to a beautiful daughter who is just ‘two months old’ right now. The father of the child is Javaughn Young-White, who is her guitarist.
She is a vegan
Kehlani’s Tech Startup – Flora
Kehlani got into the tech business and she’s tapped Arlan Hamilton’s Backstage Capital for funding.
Backstage Capital, the venture capital firm focused on funding people of color, has invested $50,000 in Kehlani’s stealth startup, Flora.
The idea with Flora is to focus on health and wellness for the artist’s target audience of people between the ages of 16 and 25. Details of the startup are scarce, but Flora describes itself as “curated green content.” As part of the investment, Hamilton will join the board, and act as a mentor and advisor.
(Source Techcrunch)
Top 20 Kehlani Quotes on Love, Life and Success
“Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.”
“Stardom is a crazy thought. If that’s what my path is, then that’s where I’m excited to be headed towards.” – Kehlani Quotes
“I’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.”
“You are like the sun so always stay bright.” – Kehlani Quotes
“I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I’ve realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn’t make you give up half of yourself.”
“I feel like I don’t really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.”
“Sometimes I make songs about girls, and I say ‘he,’ or I’ll make songs about guys, and I say ‘she,’ or sometimes they’re exactly what they’re about. I feel like it just allows me to get a lot more perspective.”
“My biggest role model right now is Beyonce, just ’cause she is a very, very strong, powerful woman, and that’s obviously the number one reason to be inspired by her. She is just killing every game there is to kill.” – Kehlani
“I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. Couldn’t even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I’m paying my own bills. I’m about to move my mama in with me at 19. I’m on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape.”
“I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it’s not – it’s someone else’s. All heartfelt music and all honest music, it’s who we are. Of course, our upbringing has everything to do with it.”
“I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my own stuff or play solos. Can accompany myself ’cause most songs are, like, four chords.”
“You start singing by singing what you hear. So everyone, when they first start singing, they naturally are singing like whatever they’re hearing, because that’s the only way you learned how to sing. So when I was growing up on Lauryn Hill, when I started singing her songs, I literally trained my voice to be able to do runs.”
“There’s girls that grew up like me and even worse, and they need to know that there is someone out there that can give them hope with my music. It’s about inspiring people and helping people.” – Kehlani
“Me being so open just helps other people. People feel like they know me so much that they can talk to me all of the time about really personal things. Sometimes it’s really nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they’re creepy or not.”
“I think my main two songs are ‘FWU’ and ‘Get Away.’ ‘FWU’ made a cool point because it came out right after Chris Brown’s ‘Loyal’ came out. I combated it with ‘FWU,’ a song that basically says, ‘These women are loyal.'” Kehlani Quotes
“As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it’s tight, then the world is going to think it’s tight.”
“I hang out with the right people, my friends that I’ve had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family – just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of.”
“When you look at me, you can’t really tell what I am, but I’m black, white, Native, Spanish, and a little bit of Filipino.”
“Sex is biological, but gender is mental.”
“I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We’d listen to a lot of Bollywood. I’d listen to Spanish music – and I don’t even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing – we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She’s tight. I like cool vocal inflections; cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good.”
“I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&B, and I love the radio smashes he’s put out since then, but I go back to his older music for that R&B.”
“My pops passed when I was little. I didn’t have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn’t have my biological mother.” – Kehlani Quotes on Life
“As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it’s tight, then the world is going to think it’s tight.” – Kehlani
“I think most people don’t know that I really write everything myself. No help. There’s nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don’t think I’m a singer. They think I’m a rapper.”
“If my eyebrows are cool, if my eyeliner is popping, if I’m moisturized, then I can pretty much wear whatever I want. I think if your hair and your face are together, I think it’s pretty much polished!”
“I’m a healthy eater, but I don’t consider Chick-fil-A fast food.”
“It’s funny: I don’t listen to too much rap. I don’t listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it’s Ja Rule.”
“I think writing and singing go together, but I treat them as two separate careers because I write for others. If I’m writing for myself, I prefer to be with the producer. And then we can vibe out and throw ideas back and forth, and I’ll basically let the producer play me a bunch of beats until I vibe with one.”
“I feel like I don’t really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.” – Motivational Kehlani Quotes
“There’s girls that grew up like me and even worse, and they need to know that there is someone out there that can give them hope with my music. It’s about inspiring people and helping people.” – Best Kehlani quotes
“Yes you are like the sun so always shine bright” – Kehlani
“I feel like I don’t really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing my self.” – Kehlani
“Observe don’t absorb!” – Kehlani
“I really hate findin out people that show love really be talkin crazy behind the scenes. bitch buck up and hate me wit ur chest”
“It don’t take a whole day to recognize sunshine”
“Don’t speak on what you don’t know”
“My brain kind of works in steps. I have to go through things and then process them and then write about them. I have to understand them first.” – Kehlani
“Done playin.” – Kehlani Quotes
“All the water in the world couldn’t sink a ship unless it got inside”
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