By Jaci Jedrych
D.C.-based artist Ari Voxx’s latest track “Brown Eyes” explores the nuanced feeling that surrounds race while growing up.
Known for her jazz and neo-soul vocals, Ari Voxx focuses her music on sounds that are authentic, genuine, and fully her. Her influences include Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Imogen Heap, Mac DeMarco, Zero 7, and Corinne Bailey Rae, making a sound that is “indie, melancholic, and chill.” Listeners can “expect to feel retro vibes, catchy melodies, smooth, buttery vocals, and emotional lyricism.”
Her latest song is off of her upcoming 4-song EP, “Letters To Myself.” Voxx uses the album to explore her own feelings of self-identity, nostalgia, holding on, and letting go. “Brown Eyes” discusses the struggles that come with growing up Black in predominantly white areas.
“’Brown Eyes’ is about my experience growing up as a black kid in a mostly white environment – feeling never fully accepted by the white kids, and cast out by most other black kids for ‘acting too white,’ a nuisance and side effect of racism that I still sometimes deal with today,” Voxx notes. “This song radiates emotions of loneliness, frustration, sadness, and longing.”
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Jaci Jedrych is a World Politics student at The Catholic University in Washington, D.C. She loves going to concerts and exploring different genres, and has a passion for arts and news writing.
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