Lola

Preceded by her sizzling and suggestive debut single, “No Strings” – which is already tearing up major radio playlists around the country - Lola’s SoBe/Warner Bros. debut Take It Like I Give It, blasts through conventional genres by reflecting this 25-year-old singer/songwriter’s boundless upbringing across three continents and her refusal to conform to any conventional musical plots. Born and raised by hippie parents in Paris’ gritty and multicultural Belleville district via layovers in Brazil, Los Angeles, and now Brooklyn, what comes out could be called any number of things -- soul-fueled rock, lounge-fed R&B, jazz-soaked pop, and blues-sopped hip-hop. Yet the description that truly does her music justice is attention-grabbing.