“I would just love for people to know that there’s no mould for what a woman is or for what an artist is. Sometimes they’re thrown at us and we overcompensate and we think, ‘Oh, I gotta do this, I’ve got to be this.’ But all you’ve got to do is work hard at being you.”
One of the most exciting singer-songwriters of our generation, H.E.R had already snapped up four well-deserved Grammys and an Oscar for Best Original Song before releasing Back of My Mind, her first full-length album earlier this year. So how does this modern R&B legend feel about her meteoric rise to stardom? Covering our Autumn 2021 issue, H.E.R sits down with her idol and superstar, Alicia Keys, to talk the pressures of fame, her latest album and why she’s exactly where she wants to be