ON THE RISE
Growing up, Aubrionna Wilson was always the girl in the background.
Afraid of being judged, she preferred to keep quiet – until she experienced heartbreak and needed a way to express herself. And music was a natural outlet for the East Saint Louis native who started singing at the age of six.
“I felt like if I said something people wouldn’t understand me, so what was the point in saying anything,” she recalls. “When I started writing music, it really gave me an outlet. It just made me feel free, gave me freedom to say what I wanted to say. And in real life it helped me to actually be myself and not care what other people thought about me.”
Now Aubrionna is turning heads among music industry veterans while showcasing her personality on TikTok and Instagram and captivating fans with her catchy melodies and upbeat rhythms.
And the girl who used to stay in the background is now front and center in her first official music video for the single “Don Da Da.”
“I was nervous,” she says. “But after a minute it just came natural to me.”
It’s a confident song in both title and message, inspired by a talk with her mother who said she didn’t let a man take over her life back in the day.
“She was confident in herself and she knew what she wanted to do and how she wanted to do it and she didn’t let a man control it,” Aubrionna says. “Don Da Da came up and I looked up the saying and it’s a powerful figure, someone in charge, a leader.”
“She don’t do no chasing,” she sings on the song’s first line. “She don’t go nowhere hesitating. What she want she get ain’t no waiting. When she walk in a room make you nervous.”
Musically, it’s pop-meets-Afrobeats in style. Aubrionna used to listen to trap music but found herself making music with Afrobeats after discovering the genre on YouTube. Now she’s able to transition seamlessly from one genre to another. Positivity and relatability are the only constants.
“I show positivity through my songs and talk about love, relationships,” she says. “Basically things that women can relate to, that they aren’t scared to say.”
“I always try to be authentic with my lyrics and relatable,” she says. “No matter how big my career gets, I always want to be known as that person who if she did it then I can too. A positive role model.”
Aubrionna writes all her own music and will release her first album this fall and has music videos for three other singles due out in the coming months, addressing everything from her place in the world to crazy relationships and Zodiac signs. Diverse Power will feature nine tracks and leans heavily on Aubrionna’s Afrobeat influences.
“It’s nine different tracks that are diverse and unique and powerful in their own way,” she says.
She compares it to Michael Jackson’s Thriller album, where each song is a single that stands on its own with different beats and concepts.
Make sure to stay connected to Aubrionna on all platforms for new music, videos and social posts.
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