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With A-list collaborations and club-filling anthems under her belt, this year singer-songwriter Bebe Rexha is taking centre stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Bebe Rexha (ne\u0301e Bleta Rexha) is sitting in a\u00a0French cafe\u0301 in LA when she picks up my call. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter and producer is taking a well-earned morning break from her hectic career, which has seen her pen chart-stomping records for everyone from Eminem and Rihanna to Tinashe and Selena Gomez. She\u2019s a pop-powerhouse in her own right too, releasing debut EP \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Grow Up\u201d in 2015, and amassing around a billion Spotify streams, 1.3 billion YouTube\/Vevo views and 10 million single sales, no less. \u201cI always had a passion for music,\u201d Rexha tells me, sipping her coffee. \u201cI knew it was gonna be a major part of my life, 100%. All the parents would laugh it off, but I knew I was going to make a living in the\u00a0music business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her sound is an electronic infused blend of hip-hop and\u00a0sass-packed pop, and is \u2014 needless to say \u2014 electric and fully addictive. Brooklyn born and raised, Rexha recorded her first song in Staten Island as a young teenager. \u201cI had a friend at school whose father had a recording studio in the basement, I wrote a song and recorded it and we made a beat for it.\u201d Rexha began eschewing typical high school activities to spend her time on furthering her music career, missing everything from prom to graduation. She focused instead on music industry networking to distract from the trappings of teendom.<\/p>\n

\u201cEver since way back then, I would put songs on MySpace to connect with producers… It\u2019s very interesting the networking that happened on there.\u201d At 15, Rexha submitted a song at NARAS\u2019 (National Academy of Arts & Science) annual New York \u201cGrammy Day\u201d and earned herself a \u201cBest Teen Songwriter\u201d award amongst 700 entries. One thing led to another, and she got snapped up by BMI \u2014 a songwriters\u2019 publishing company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe songs I\u2019ve given to other people were all originally written for my project,\u201d she tells me. \u201cAnd then, you know, sometimes you have to take things away, because you want to grow in your career and it\u2019s just the right thing to do. Eminem comes knocking on your door and what are you going to do? Hold onto those songs forever?\u201d She breathes out heavily, thinking for a moment. \u201cIt\u2019s such an amazing opportunity, really. It could change your life \u2013 for me it did.\u201d At that, as if by timing magic, over the phone I hear a fan walk up to the singer and pant some appreciation her way.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the LA locals who are mega-fans of hers: Rexha has found a kindred spirit in Queen Nicki Minaj. \u201cShe\u2019s such a bad bitch!\u201d she enthuses, giggling. \u201cI wrote [single \u2018No Broken Hearts\u2019] and I ended up playing it to the guy who manages Nicki Minaj. He was like: \u2018This is amazing let me send it to her\u2019, so he did and she heard it, loved it, cut it and sent it back.\u201d The result is a badass blend of cutting rap and power-pop hooks, a track made for dancing on a night out with your girls in a neon-lit nightclub. \u201cWe really connected as a duo at the video shoot,\u201d Rexha continues. \u201cIt was awesome, she\u2019s like the ultimate badass. I grew up listening to Nicki… she knows what she wants, I was so inspired by her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rexha has since been working on her much anticipated album debut. \u201cI\u2019m really proud of it,\u201d she beams. \u201cIt\u2019s very deep and insightful. People I\u2019ve played it to have said it sounds really sexy \u2013 which I love.\u201d Collaborations, naturally, are a common thread on the record, with Rexha working with everyone from revered songwriter Lauren Christy to Ty Dolla $ign, the two coming together on Rexha\u2019s favourite album cut, \u201cBad Bitch\u201d. \u201cIt\u2019s all about being a strong woman and moving to LA.\u201d She explains. \u201cIt\u2019s like: \u2018This is me, take me or leave me\u2019. That\u2019s what the whole record is like.\u201d What\u2019s next? \u201cI\u2019m gonna go on tour! I wanna see my fans, to connect to my fans. I\u2019ve opened up for Nicki, Nick Jonas and Travie McCoy, but now it\u2019s time \u2013 even if it\u2019s a small tour… to do my own, for my fans and for myself. I just want to sing the songs off the record and see where it takes me. That\u2019s my goal for this year.\u201d As far as we can tell, nothing\u2019s going to stop her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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