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This month’s new artist spotlight comes to us from Los Angeles, California. She is an EDM singer/
songwriter and one of the hottest new EDM female artists on the fast rise. We present to you, Lexxica.
With her distinct, sultry sound fused with the melodic good vibes of electro, house, and even dubstep,
her tracks will make you jump out of your seat and set you free. With the release of her new single
“Hello Friday” that is already catching fire, we sat down with Lexxica and had a chat with her in her
world of making EDM music.

You just dropped your new single
“Hello Friday” – what inspired you
to write that song?
I wanted a song that inspired the
weekend. The anthem that instantly
takes you to a place that makes you
want to dance and live in the moment.
This song is all about fun!! It’s about
getting away! Escaping the mundane,
when you just need that rescue with
your friends…when Friday is here and
you are under the lights and the whole
world disappears. You feel free and
alive and it’s the only place you want
to be!

What was it about EDM that drew Zedd, and Kaskade; would that be
you in?
your ultimate goal, to lay a track
with those artists and be in that
EDM is an experience… it creates a elite league of the mentioned
euphoric feeling that you just want female vocalists?
to get lost in. Maybe it takes a bad day
and makes you want to escape… dance, Absolutely!! I would love to work with
smile, move, jump. It gets in your soul, Zedd. I love his sound. It’s so fresh
and pumps energy through your tens. and current. And I would love to be
It awakens you. Awakens the life inside like Havana Brown and do a song with
of you.
Pitbull.
Listening to your tracks such as
“Hello Friday”, “Only If You Want
to”, and “Slow Down”, you have
such a distinct and sultry sound;
what is your inspiration in making
music, especially EDM?

What was it like working with
Grammy-nominated
producer
Rusty Varenkamp on your new Thank you. I think you have to get
track?
inspired by the music, the lyrics – get
lost in the translation of the two. When
Rusty is brilliant. We wrote my EP I get inside the studio, I dance, I move
together, “Only If You Want to”, and – I light candles all over the studio and
the EP out later this summer. I love close my eyes, and everything else
working with him and he gets my fades away.
vision. I can communicate a sound, an
idea, and he can instantly run with it There are some legendary female
and produce what I was thinking!! We vocalist such as Sia, Miriam Bryant,
make a great team!
and Haley Gibby that have worked
with the likes of David Guetta,

So what is in the works for Lexxica?
New album/EP?
Producing?
Writing? Performances?
I love being in the studio and I love
writing; the finishing touches of the
album are in the works. I have another
single called “Heart’s Collide” coming
out next. It’s one of my favorite songs
so far – it’s about the experience of
love and passion. Shortly after that,
I will release “Human Race” with a
music video and then the EP late this
summer!

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