The Season 1 winner of FOX’s “The Four: Battle for Stardom.” A singer, songwriter, recording artist with Motown Gospel/Capitol CMG, she has over 215 THOUSAND monthly listeners on Spotify and her YouTube channel has a combined seven million-plus video views. She has toured the U.S. extensively, as well as performed in the UK, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, and has a single that at the time of this interview was #4 at Gospel radio, a song from an EP she put out back in late February. In 2018 she had been named one of iHeartRadio’s “On the Verge Artists.”
"As we get out of bed, we walk into a world that is so overrun by the world's To Do list and it's so overrun by a lot of people who may not believe the same way as you do."
"I'm old school... If it's not from the heart, and if I don't feel it, I don't want to sing it."
"It's a level of truth and it's a level of vulnerability that comes with when I actually get in the booth to lay down the record... I feel like the listener feels... that soul in your music when you have been through it or when you are experiencing what it actually feels like."
"It's so important that, in the music industry, especially today, that you do things that feel right."
"In 2017 I was on a tour and I had been on the tour for about two, two-and-a-half months, and the tour director called me... and he said, 'Evvie, we're not going to be able to bring you on for the tour next year, at the top of next year' ... he said, 'Because we're gonna cut back on the band and we're trying to save costs'."
"I got an email from an executive producer from a brand new singing competition show called The Four: Battle For Stardom, which starred P. Diddy, Meghan Trainor, and DJ Khaled. And she sent an email to me saying... 'Would you like to send anything in as an audition?'"
"Meghan Trainor's house was five minutes away from where I was staying. And so, she would invite me over. We would have dinner. She was just the sweetest person and so talented. And out of all the songwriters that I had worked with in California when I was signed to Republic Records, Meghan Trainor was one of the very, very, very few that would bring me into the studio and she would say, 'Evvie, what do you want to talk about?'"
"I experienced a lot of things that, I don't know what you would call it when singers go into the music industry and they just, people slap an image on you, and they slap songs in your face, and they develop you the way that they want to develop you... All they saw was a girl, another female artist who could sing and they just wanted to do things that they thought would work for me."
"My manager told me that Capitol Records, Christian Music Group, they wanted to have a meeting with me, them and Motown Gospel. And the first meeting that I had, I fell in love with them and they fell in love with me. And... I signed a dual deal. I'm actually signed to Capitol Christian Music Group and Motown Gospel... They're both working together to finish my album."
"I'm so excited about the songs that I've been writing recently because... I know that it's gonna help a lot of other families. Families that are together, families that have been broken and torn apart."
"E6"
"Just Like God"