Former Love Island star Samira Mighty has one thing up her sleeve, and it isn’t about model offers or clothes line collaborations.
The 27-year-old artist appeared on ITV’s well-liked relationship present in 2018 throughout its fourth season, which additionally featured Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham.
Now, 5 years later, the bombshell revealed her plans to take the music trade by storm – one completely happy blast at a time.
She started releasing her debut solo single Like This, Like That, which Samira co-wrote with Kylie Minogue and The Pussycat Dolls hitmaker Cutfather.
It adopted her summer season collaboration with WDC I Love Your Smile, a music that has since amassed tens of millions of downloads and streams on-line.
Hoping to match the momentum together with her newest music video premiere, the star revealed her considerations about being lumped right into a stereotype of a actuality TV star.
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She informed Metro.co.uk completely: “I feel it is all the time exhausting to be on actuality TV after which come out and do one thing that perhaps is not according to what Love Islanders must be doing .
‘That taboo should be damaged, as a result of many islanders are very gifted. I used to be within the West Finish simply earlier than getting into the villa, so it was positively grueling audition processes.
“We needed to practice to be an athlete, a dancer. It is not only a dumpster within the park.”
Samira went on to elucidate, “So I all the time knew after I got here out that I needed to proceed with these sorts of artistic facets.
“Nevertheless it’s type of exhausting for folks to take you critically as a result of they assume perhaps you are a joke otherwise you’re making an attempt to behave like a one hit marvel.”
“Hopefully folks do not see that in me.”
Amid rumors of a Love Island season with the ‘All Stars’ sequence, Samira acknowledged it may very well be one other likelihood for a enjoyable journey, however confirmed that she was sticking to her musical weapons and would succeed if producers got here knocking .
“I feel it will be bizarre… The concept of one thing like that’s clearly unimaginable as a result of I feel it will be nice TV, however I actually wish to be taken critically — as an actual, actual artist and you do not actually see Justin Bieber goes on Ex on the Seaside.
“I am unsure it will be proper if that is smart. Until they bring about me in as a singer, like when Becky Hill comes on or one thing.’
Trying to the long run, the rising star excitedly shared her reside efficiency objectives and desires for collaborative initiatives with different artists.
Samira mentioned, “Summer time goes to be a extremely good one for me this 12 months.
“After all I would love to do some options and play extra tracks with different folks and do just a few extra gigs and stuff, I feel, simply to actually present who I’m and so folks can actually consider in it.
“I really feel like typically anybody could make a bit music and put it on YouTube, however I actually need folks to come back and see me and go, ‘ what, it is a new star.’
“So hopefully this summer season might be nice!”
Like This, Like That’s now accessible to look at and stream.
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