Tallia Storm has linked up with Jeremih for her new single ‘She Decides’. The Camper-produced single opens her independent EP ‘After The Storm’, due in January.
Elton John discovered the Scottish singer, songwriter and broadcaster when she was 13, and industry veteran Ron Fair signed her the following year. Now 27, she’s doing it on her own terms. ‘She Decides’ is the first taste of new EP ‘After The Storm’, which lands in January and is executive produced by Grammy winner Camper.
The project is independent in the truest sense. Storm has paid for the music herself off the back of a busy career across radio, TV and presenting: hundreds of national breakfast shows, red carpets, and interviews with some of the biggest names going. Along the way she’s built a social following of more than 1.5 million.
“I’ve spent years learning every side of this business,” she says. “I feel like everything has been leading me here. Now is the time to take everything I’ve learned and really go for it.”
The credits back up the ambition. 16-time Grammy winner Jaycen Joshua, who first worked with Storm on her debut album ‘Teenage Tears’, helped put together the team around the EP. That team includes songwriter Daniel Church, whose recent credits include Kehlani. Joshua co-mixed ‘She Decides’ with Mike Seaberg. Colin Leonard of SING Mastering mastered it, fresh from Bad Bunny’s Album of the Year-winning ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS’.
Then there’s Jeremih, the voice behind ‘Birthday Sex’, ‘Don’t Tell ’Em’, ‘Oui’ and the Grammy-nominated J. Cole collaboration ‘Planes’. On Camper’s production, his unmistakable tone meets Storm’s new sound. It’s a confident R&B cut about a woman who knows her worth and makes her own choices.
“Having Camper executive produce my EP is a pinch-me moment,” Storm says. “I’m a girl from Scotland, so to be creating alongside people operating at that level and to have my music in that conversation means everything to me.”
The record carries extra weight. Storm’s father was a musician and one of her biggest musical influences, and his sudden death this summer changed everything.
“Music was ours,” she says. “We had made music together my whole life, and suddenly I understood how precious time really is. It gave me this feeling of: this is my life, this is my music and this is my moment to give it everything I’ve got.”
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