.ReneeRapp—Broadway darling, singer, and star of HBO's 'Sex Lives of College Girls'—is our MTVPush artist for December
from her role as the iconic queen bee Regina George in Broadway’s. Her acting gigs have given her the opportunity to perform on stage, but she yearned for the opportunity to sing her own songs to the world. “I have always known that this was exactly verbatim on what I was gonna do,” she said. “There was no question in my mind on whether I was gonna do it.” This past year, she debuted her first EP, composed of seven R&B cuts and pop ballads.
Born in Huntersville, North Carolina, and raised in Charlotte, Rapp fell in love with singing by listening to P!nk and Beyoncé. Queen Bey, in particular, became a major influence on her voice. “I still think she is one of my favorites, if not, like, god to me,” she said. “So I would basically listen to her on repeat and really try to sing like that. So I feel like, in a lot of ways, that taught me how to sing, looking up to a lot of really, really powerful female vocalists of the 2000s.
Now, the pop-R&B singer knows all the negative things she thought about herself were untrue; writing and creatingfunctioned as a healing form of self-reflection. “The EP was the craziest thing because I learned everything about myself,” she said. “I’ve taken seven moments where I feel like I’m at my lowest and turned those to the best moments of my entire year, which is so cool and I feel so grateful to be able to say that.
Shedding happy tears over how far she has come, she is overjoyed that there are people out there who want to listen to her music. “I feel like this is all I've wanted to do my whole life,” she said, “and I’m so excited that I get to do it.”
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