Zonnique’s 20s marked milestones like touring with OMG Girlz and rising up on actuality TV.
She’s embracing 30 with confidence, exploring a extra mature sound and confident persona.
Zonnique’s household, together with T.I. and Tiny, have been supportive of her musical evolution.
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Zonnique resides her “BEST” life and getting into her 30s with confidence, inventive braveness, and a spicy single.
The singer, actuality TV vet, and ATL mainstay is celebrating her milestone birthday in the present day with the discharge of her new single “BEST,” a grown-up observe that indicators a brand new period for the OMG Woman.
Reflecting on her 20s, Zonnique informed BOSSIP they have been outlined by a collection of formative milestones, from touring along with her groupmates to rising up in entrance of tens of millions on T.I. & Tiny: The Household Hustle, the VH1 present that likened the Harris household to the Cosbys.
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“I might say the most important highlights for me can be touring with my women as a result of we’re like household,” she informed Managing Editor Dani Canada. “Simply having the ability to go from metropolis to metropolis together with your favourite folks is all the time a spotlight.”
She additionally pointed to her time on actuality tv and in movie as pivotal to her development.
“Filming Household Hustle, on the time I used to be younger and simply rising up on it, I wasn’t actually taking it in,” she stated. “However I might say Household Hustle for positive, and being within the three motion pictures that I did.”
Whereas she admits she initially felt some anxiousness about turning 30, that hesitation has since given solution to a renewed sense of pleasure concerning the subsequent chapter.
She kicked off the milestone on Thursday with a ritzy “Soiled 30” celebration attended by her mother, Tiny Harris, and Tiny’s groupmate/good girlfriend, Kandi Burruss.
“At first I had a bit concern, like okay, life must be collectively,” Zonnique stated about coming into a brand new decade. “However now that I’m about to be 30, I’m simply actually excited for what’s to come back.”
That pleasure is exhibiting up in her music.
Zonnique Talks “BEST”, OMG Girlz
Zonnique is getting into a brand new period, and based on the one, her newest single “BEST” indicators each a extra mature, refined sound and a extra confident sense of self.
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“This represents for me simply standing in my mild,” she informed BOSSIP. “Being my true self, being dangerous, taking probabilities and never being so in my head on a regular basis.”
That development, she added, is obvious throughout each layer of her artistry.
“I might say that for one, the vocals have developed. I really feel like, you already know, folks have been listening to me sing since I used to be eight years previous. So it’s like, you already know, I really feel like all the pieces actually has developed to the vocals, the best way I current myself, the performances, the dancing like I’ve simply been in a position to develop.”
Zonnique additionally famous that her evolution has unfolded in actual time for followers who’ve adopted her journey from childhood to now.
“I actually love that folks have been in a position to additionally watch me develop as a result of I really feel like they will relate to me and really feel like they know me as an individual and never simply an artist.”
Nonetheless, her solo stride doesn’t sign a separation from her roots. Zonnique, who sings as “Star” within the group, emphasised that the OMG Girlz stay a central a part of her story, with the group now gearing up for a long-awaited full-length venture.
“So the ladies and I, for one, have by no means put out a full physique of labor. So we’re actually excited to have the ability to do this this yr. We’ve been working actually arduous within the studio. We need to go on tour once more and do numerous issues that we haven’t carried out being again collectively as grown adults.”
Zonnique Talks T.I., King Harris, Domani Harris & Messiah Harris Defending Tiny From 50 Cent
Even amid the love fest between Zonnique and her OMG Girlz groupmates, the daughter of Tiny Harris and stepdaughter of T.I. has seen her household dominate headlines for one thing far much less harmonious.
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As beforehand reported, 50 Cent and the Harris household have been locked in a social media back-and-forth after the rapper made disparaging feedback about Tiny. Curtis Jackson hasn’t identified peace since contemplating that he acquired Harris household walloped with jokes about his deceased mom and diss tracks from T.I. and his sons, King and Domani.
Zonnique informed BOSSIP that she’s standing firmly along with her household and wasn’t shocked by the response.
“You recognize what? I’m actually pleased with them,” she informed BOSSIP. “The lads in my household are very headstrong and really protecting of the ladies.”
She added that from the second she noticed the state of affairs unfold, she already knew how it could play out, and he or she’s happy to see her brothers going to warfare for the Harris household matriarch.
“I like to see how protecting they’re, how they take up for the ladies within the household. I believe it’s a fantastic factor.”
And whereas the state of affairs sparked widespread chatter on-line, Zonnique admitted she’s been watching all of it unfold with proverbial popcorn in hand.
“I’m the messy one within the feedback like, ‘Okay, get him, get him,’” she joked.
She additionally stepped in to re-shut down rumors involving her youthful sister, Heiress, who was mistakenly pulled into the net discourse.
“For Heiress out of all of us to have stated something, she’s a child and doesn’t even know what’s occurring,” she stated. “I used to be like, yeah, let me cease this rumor proper right here.”
Via all of it, Zonnique stated her household’s help has been instrumental, particularly as she embraces a daring route in her music.
“Simply to have their help, though it’s a dangerous tune, it means the world to me.”
Take heed to Zonnique’s new single “BEST” right here.
