The song is just a story for me, being a call girl and making money got me thinking about being alone and trying to make my way into the business.” As we cheers to that with a glass of Sauvignon Blanc I ask if her music is a way to rebel to her past where she was banned from listening to hip-hop and R&B. As an artist you can get hooked up by anything and create it according to your vision. I watched it for hours, I loved the British style and feel to it but I was in Miami when I recorded it so I got influenced by that as well. “It was 2012, I was in London and I used to watch “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” the one starring Billie Piper. In “Coca Cola Classic” she sensually sings about money, abuse, and Jack Daniel’s shots while in “Hotel Miami” she says, “Baby I should be your call girl / meet me at the top floor room 2012.” She has already been compared to Lana Del Rey but instead of merely singing about dangerous liaisons, Phlo is more explicit in portraying a bad girl. I have to be a bit freak about it otherwise I don’t feel like it is mine”. I work on production as well, I am so hands on and I literally stay for hours drowned into different sounds until I find the right one. I think more of Portishead and industrial beats. “TLC and Destiny’s Child had a big influence on me but in my music you can hear it only in the melodies as the production is totally different. This is why on the cover of the EP there is the date 07.16.65 but Phlo wants to embody the Poster Girl combining simplistic, progressive, industrial beats with a new R&B wave.

Her debut EP is inspired by her spiritual mother Diana Vreeland, the iconic and groundbreaking Vogue Editor of the 60′s, who first coined the term “Youthquaker” to convey this cultural movement where teenagers dictated the fashion and music scene. “There is a lot of history in my blood, just like in my tattoos”, the way she laughs is real, funny, and young but from singing in a church choir to being a singer, Phlo’s ride towards the definition of “self-made American” was not an easy one. © EP Album, ‘Poster Girl’, Phlo Finister,īorn in Oakland to half Portuguese and Irish parents, Phlo strikes me with her sparkling smile and though she only has a hint of Egyptian blood, when you look into her eyes you immediately feel the Cleopatra glamour.

Phlo Finister instantly walked me through the day and age she embodies in her style and music, and I’m about to find out why she deserves to be a Poster Girl just like Twiggy, Penelope Tree, and Edie Sedwick. I knew this young Californian artist, who is set to release her very first EP “Poster Girl” this month, found a strong connection with the Youthquaker movement of the 60′s and “Mod” sensibility but as I follow her, dressed in a Felder Felder black beaded mini dress and Prada shoes, the noise around me disappears and what I hear is modern jazz, British R&B, and The Who. As she walks through the crowd in search of a quiet spot, I feel like time is running backwards. It is yet another rainy summer day in London when I head inside of the Soho House to meet with Phlo Finister and the moment I see her, sitting in a corner waiting for me, I suddenly feel like Owen Wilson in Woody Allen’s “Midnight In Paris”.

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