Happy Friday everybody! I have a spotlight to start the weekend. As always, if you or someone you know is a talented artist, designer, producer, etc. looking to be featured on The Spotlight, please email me at BrittanyShawnte@gmail.com (please see my Contact/Disclaimer page for requirements)!
Today, we have Russian-born/LA-based soul singer Cooper
Phillip! I featured Cooper’s great
song “Silence” on the blog last week, and had to have an interview with her to
find out more about this great talent! Cooper was born into a family of
musicians, so she has literally been around music all of her life. “I grew up going to the theater where my mother performed on the violin
with the orchestra,” Cooper reminisced. “She put me on stage when I was two as
part of Tchaikovsky's opera.” Even at that young an age, Cooper’s
excitement and interest in being a performer began. She started out as a
classical pianist, but didn’t believe it to be her purpose, and ultimately moved
on to singing. “I realized this was my passion and where I wanted to grow,”
the singer said. She won her first international singing competition at 11
years old, and immediately realized that singing was her destiny. “I felt such
energy and recognition from the crowd [and] I knew this was the right path for
me,” Cooper said.
