Miss Laidlaw:
‘everything I do is through the feelings that I need to express at the time. So I skip between genres, depending on heart rate, mood, melodies , inspiration etc, anything can be a factor. ’Miss Laidlaw’s obsession with music was no accident. Her mother a singer and her father a producer and record label owner, fed her addiction of everything musical and soul felt. Miss Laidlaw’s adventure started by scratching every piece of vinyl her mother had, through constant repetition. Teena Marie, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, Stephanie Mills, Donald Byrd, Simply Red and Dennis Brown where the artist who would regularly get played.
Every Christmas her mother would buy her a piece of musical equipment, which she would practice on endlessly. Her father would introduce her to the world of analogue recordings and reel to reel’s and taught her how to structure her first tracks. It was only a matter of time before her love became her addiction and she was soon, rapping, singing, writing her own songs, performing on stage and in clubs and later on in her life took up beatmaking as a way to silence those melodic ghosts in her head .Miss Laidlaw:
‘I was writing songs and rap lyrics and didn’t have instrumentals to rap over. The whole producing world was not alien to me. So I saved up money and practiced making beats. For a while I had become this critical being, that was not entirely happy with the sound that I was creating. But eventually that habitual thinking began to fade the more confident I had become in my style. 'Currently Miss Laidlaw is working on a number of music projects with artists around the world. As well as running her own motivational music website www.femalebeatmakers.com Her debut album ‘The Beatmaking Housewife’ is set to hit stores at end of 2008.BE YOURSELF
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