Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019

Los Angeles, CA – Singer-songwriter and dancer Candice Craig introduced in 2019 with some for her closest buddies, household, and supporters for an extravagant 2019 New Years Eve occasion. The occasion, which additionally occurred to land on her birthday, is the place she formally debuted her new single “Bands Up” (a #DXHitList fave) to the world for a banging efficiency with the assistance The Future Kingz as her unbelievable again up dancers.

Held in a large mansion on Mulholland Drive, the occasion was packed and music stuffed the property courtesy DJ Muda. There was a endless provide Ciroc and Bel-Air champagne flowing all through the complete evening and greater than sufficient bites, together with a beautiful lady mendacity on a desk adorned in pink rose petals and sushi, who was sort sufficient to let a ravenous crowd eat f her.

Some the friends who got here out to assist rejoice the New 12 months and launch her new single “Bands Up” included Los Angeles Laker Lonzo Ball, her boyfriend retired NFL participant Omar Bolden, Hip Hop designer Karl Kani, The Bobby Brown Story‘s Woody McClain in addition to widespread social media influencers reminiscent of B. Simone, Watch Jazzy, Liane V, Don Benjamin, Dan Rue and Jessica Burciaga, amongst many others.

Within the spirit “Bands Up,” $100 greenback payments with Candice’s countenance coated the ground. There was even a greenback signal ice sculpture and cash weapons friends might play with whereas dancing the evening away.

This was Candice’s method getting into the brand new 12 months and her new tune “Bands Up” is an entire temper. Earlier than the occasion kicked f, HipHopDX sat with Candice and bought some recommendation from the famed dancer about the important thing to getting your bands up in 2018, her time signed to Island Def Jam as half woman group Women United and why it’s necessary for her to attempt her hand at going solo.

HipHopDX: Your new tune is known as “Bands Up” and it’s hearth. What’s one of the best ways somebody can get their bands up in 2019?

Candice Craig: Actually consider in your self even once they let you know it’s not potential. That, I really feel like, is the important thing to life. You haven’t any boundaries ever. Don’t let anybody let you know that. 25 no’s for one sure. If you do not forget that ratio you’ll win. It’s what it’s. Not everybody goes to consider in you and “Bands Up” is about being a boss bae, proudly owning as much as it, getting your individual cash, your individual happiness and love. “Bands Up” is common and I really feel prefer it’s one thing that every one males want to listen to, all girls want to listen to, everyone. Imagine in your self and it’ll all occur.

DX: You’ve achieved so much in your profession to this point and now you’re going full pace forward as a solo artist. Inform me about your time signed to Def Jam, being half that woman group and getting on X-Issue.

CC: I used to be signed straight out Miami. I used to be in a woman group known as Women United. We had been flown out all the way in which to New York to fulfill with Karen Kwak who on the time was below L.A. Reid and we needed to do the standard, old-school document deal signing scenario. We needed to go in there and carry out for him. We left the large constructing in New York, we get a name from the label and it was them calling to fer us a deal. We had been so younger, 17 years previous, not even 18 but getting signed by L.A. Reid to Island Def Jam and we couldn’t have been any extra ecstatic. With that cash, we moved to Los Angeles. We had been a gaggle for about eight years. We did X-Issue and made High 10 teams with Simon Cowell and it was the identical time Demi Lovato was on there and so was Kelly Rowland. The group fell aside as a result of one the women needed to be a sugar child. I made a decision to go solo after that. It’s been about two years and that is the primary 12 months the place I’m diving head first into it and placing the music first.

DX: Because you’re doing your individual factor now, what are your expectations this go round?

CC: I simply really feel prefer it’s lastly the time. I’ve been in a woman group for therefore lengthy and in between leaving the woman group and being signed to Island Def Jam, I used to be on tour with Nicki Minaj, Pharrell and I used to be dancing for Chris Brown and doing all these big exhibits. I’ve at all times needed to cross-pollinate and do two on the similar time so this 12 months I actually need to deal with the artist aspect and actually hone and dive in deep. Nothing else actually issues proper now and there’s solely a plan A so we simply bought to dive in head first.

DX: What classes are you bringing with you as you embark on this new journey being a solo artist?

CC: So many issues. The cash aspect, the enterprise aspect issues, having buddies within the enterprise, some individuals don’t have the most effective curiosity for you some individuals do. You find out about individuals and that the individuals round you’re crucial. You additionally find out about constructing the correct staff. All people round you issues and I believe that’s one the most important issues I realized as a result of you’ll be able to’t do issues with out the correct individuals. Household is tremendous necessary and conserving them shut as a result of it’s tremendous cutthroat. One minute you’re scorching and one minute you’re not. Simply being level-headed and having fun with your self as a result of it truly is in regards to the course of. All of us have objectives and aspirations but it surely’s nearly having fun with the journey and that’s why I really feel so fulfilled in my life proper now as a result of I spotted that I select every part. I select who I need to love, I select what I need to do.

DX: You’re an incredible dancer and clearly know the right way to make a bop, what’s your favourite half about performing your music?

CC: I really like being within the studio creating it after which seeing it come to life by truly performing it. So from the method having a vibe after I go into the studio whether or not or not it’s with a author or producer and addressing the vibe the day. Generally you’re glad and generally you are feeling such as you need to slap a hoe. No matter that feeling is, I really like that it could actually translate over after which I can placed on an entire efficiency to create an entire vibe for the group to catch it. The second they catch it’s the better part about performing.

DX: You’ve just about constructed what you’ve got happening now out of your clothes line to your music profession by yourself. What drives you to get up day by day to go work out, go hit the studio, put out the tune, make the style line and actually simply put your self on the market?

CC: Actually, this may sound cliché however I do it for my household. I do it for the individuals I really like and the individuals who consider in me even after I gave them nothing to consider in. My household is my primary they usually’re proud me. I need to take care them and I need to have it the place they don’t should work. I don’t need my mother to work anymore. We’re nearly there. I really feel like I’m proper on the tip. After I should buy her a home and he or she doesn’t should work anymore I can look again, like rattling we lastly did one thing.

Peep all of the motion from Candice Craig’s NYE “Bands Up” single launch occasion beneath.

Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019
Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019
Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019
Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019
Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019
Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019
Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019
Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019
Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019
Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019
Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019
Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019
Candice Craig Debuts New Single "Bands Up" At NYE Soireé & Shares The Secret To Getting Yours Up In 2019