Ari Lennox looks back on the hiccups and success of her decade of hustling
wonders what her life would be like if her parents had listened to Korn.
Born Courtney Salter and raised in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Lennox credits her musical talent and growth to her three grandmas. “Grandma Holly told me at three years old that I had a voice of an angel, and I just never stopped singing,” Lennox says. “Grandma Mills told me I was always writing under her porch.” Those early songs, written around the age of four, weren’t saved, but she does remember being a “scary tyrant,” forcing her older sister to sing them with her.
“I remember singing my heart out. My eyes were closed the whole time,” she explains. “When I open them, there was this white lady in the front. She had her hands over her ears. …Lennox’s relationship with rejection ebbed and flowed through her early career; it was something she experienced frequently as she came up. In 2008, the summer before her senior year of high school, Lennox auditioned forbut didn’t make the cut.
“Everyone was so mad at me! People that I didn’t even know! They were coming to this video and bashing me for it,” she says. “I saw what content was making people angry and what content was making them like me.”
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