{"id":2040,"date":"2014-05-14T03:07:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T03:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2014-05-14T03:21:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T03:21:45","slug":"2014-indie-music-award-winner-mz-blue-best-rap-artist-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/2014-indie-music-award-winner-mz-blue-best-rap-artist-female\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Indie Music Awards Winner ~ Mz Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2038\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2038\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2038\" src=\"http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mz-Blue-1-225x180.jpg\" alt=\"Mz Blue \" width=\"225\" height=\"180\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mz Blue<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m excited to share this written interview with 2014 Indie Music Awards Winner for Best Rap Artist Female: Mz Blue. Currently, Mz Blue is super busy touring, so she was unable to meet with me in person.<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia: It\u2019s so exciting to see your hard work pay off. How long have been involved with Khymberlee Carlyle and Lipstick Radio?<\/p>\n<p>Mz. Blue: <em>I have been involved with Lipstick Radio since the beginning of last year, so well over a year now. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia: This year\u2019s Indie Music Awards winners were selected by their fans. How did you get your fans engaged and voting?<\/p>\n<p>Mz. Blue: <em>I promoted heavily on all my social sites. I have quite a few pages that I promote off of, and all of them have thousands of followers. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I engaged fans more through the use of videos. I made a short clip asking them to vote for me to win and thanked them in advance; I posted this clip every week until the competition ended. I posted several links and directly spoke with some of them. I really got involved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia: How do you use social media and other marketing channels to connect with fans?<\/p>\n<p>Mz. Blue: <em>You won\u2019t gain fans if you\u2019re not communicating while you\u2019re posting links up of your product. Engagement is so important because these are the people that are going to buy whatever it is that you\u2019re selling. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I connect with people and ask them questions and get to know them. Some people want to know that you care for them as a person, and you\u2019re not just using them to buy something from you or only for selfish gain. I see what they are up to in their daily life, that\u2019s how I get them to warm up to me. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2036\" src=\"http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mz-Blue-performing-225x184.jpg\" alt=\"Mz Blue performing\" width=\"225\" height=\"184\" \/>Cynthia: How long have you been in indie music?<\/p>\n<p>Mz. Blue: <em>I have been an indie artist for several years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia: What is your musical background and training?<\/p>\n<p>Mz. Blue: <em>I grew up singing in the church choir for St. John\u2019s United Methodist. I also took private voice lessons from a church member that was friends with\u00a0my parents. I took voice lessons and sang in the school choir as well. I started rapping at an early age too and decided that I wanted to do both of them and so that\u2019s what I did.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia: Who can we thank for being your musical influencers?<\/p>\n<p>Mz. Blue: <em>When it comes to music, I grew up mimicking Toni Braxton, Brandy, Monica, Whitney Houston, Kelly Price, and Destiny\u2019s Child. I loved all of their voices and style influences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0On the rap side my influences started as early as Salt &amp; Pepper, Geto Boys, Queen Latifah, Eve, and that\u2019s just to name a few. I would that say now days, I\u2019m more on Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, J cole, Jay Z and Eminem. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia: Do you collaborate with other artists? What skill sets do you look for to compliment your own musical talents?<\/p>\n<p><em>I haven\u2019t collaborated with many artists lately, because I\u2019m still perfecting my own craft, but I have featured with a few from time to time. When I collaborate, I\u2019m going for the guy who\u2019s lyrical with his word play; I don\u2019t like boring music. I like artists that are just as creative as me. That\u2019s a dosage for a hot record.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia: So, now that the awards show is over, what\u2019s up next for Mz Blue?<\/p>\n<p>Mz. Blue<em>: I\u2019m getting ready to relocate to Atlanta, so my whole life is about to change. I feel like there\u2019s really not enough time in the day. I am completing the mix-tape called \u201cTake Flight,\u201d and once that\u2019s done, I\u2019ll be working on a few promo videos. My book \u201cRap Revelation\u201d should be edited and published sometime soon. I\u2019m really excited about everything, especially the book I just wrote. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2039\" src=\"http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mz-Blue-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mz Blue in black\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mz-Blue-2.jpg 213w, https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mz-Blue-2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/>I am focused and my thoughts are sound and clear. I really have a lot to thank God for. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks for your support and for interviewing me!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mz Blue<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mzbluerapdiva\" target=\"_blank\">@MzBlueRapDiva<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MzBlue2k?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\/104008532181581480944\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MZBLUETAKEFLIGHT\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2014 Indie Music Award Winners Series<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Kahn, Founder of Amused Now \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/amusednow\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Amused_Now\" target=\"_blank\">@Amused_Now<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmusedNow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\/106372266016264510992\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/amusednow\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you missed the awards show, you can watch the 2014 Indie Music Awards Show anytime on the Amused Now YouTube Channel:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/bC1eXdqoaZA\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/bC1eXdqoaZA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read about the 2014 Indie Music Awards Show on Amused Now:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/2014-indie-music-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/2014-indie-music-awards\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the Khymberlee Carlyle\u2019s back story behind the 2014 Indie Music Awards show:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/khymberlee-carlyle-2014-indie-music-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/khymberlee-carlyle-2014-indie-music-awards\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m excited to share this written interview with 2014 Indie Music Awards Winner for Best Rap Artist Female: Mz Blue. Currently, Mz Blue is super busy touring, so she was unable to meet with me in person. Cynthia: It\u2019s so exciting to see your hard work pay off. How long have been involved with Khymberlee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[330,345],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-indie-music","tag-mz-blue"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2014 Indie Music Awards Winner ~ Mz Blue - Amused Now<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mz Blue, 2014 Indie Music Awards winner for Best Rap Artist Female, shares her winning strategy, music background and plans for the future with Amused Now.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/amusednow.com\/blog\/2014-indie-music-award-winner-mz-blue-best-rap-artist-female\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2014 Indie Music Awards Winner ~ Mz Blue - 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