Vita Chambers: Next Bajan Pop Diva

SRP/Universal Motown recording artiste VITA CHAMBERS

Dre: What is your full name?

Vita: Vita Charday Chambers

Dre: I heard you were a model before. Tell me what that experience was like and why you stopped.

Vita: Well, I didn’t plan on getting into it. I was walking in Sheraton [shopping mall] with my friend, and I went into Dingolay [boutique], this guy came up behind me and said; “Could I speak to you?” So I was like; “…Why?” (Laughs) Because you know when a guy just comes up to you, you’re like hmm… (laughs) So anyway, he said that he was a part of Gadal Modeling Agency and his name was Joel Brooks. So he said he wanted to sign me up with the agency and I said okay. I dabbled in that a little but I didn’t like modeling so much for me, but it was fun. It was a good experience. I learnt how to pose for cameras, but I was still really focused on my music at that time.

Dre: Any further interests in modeling or fashion?

Vita: Possibly later on in the future, but for right now I am more focused on my music.

Dre: Did you always have an interest in music or becoming a recording artiste?

Vita: Of course! Always! From as far back as I can remember.

Dre: So tell me how it all started, from square one, to this point.

Vita: Wow, okay. My mom told me from the time I came out of the womb i was screaming my head off, (laughs) so I guess that’s where it starts. Growing up, I always sang in the car with my mom. I remember I wanted a puppy so bad that I made up a song about how much I wanted the puppy. (laughs) And I always used to sing in the shower, making a racket. (laughs) Then one time at school [Will's Primary School] they wanted me to audition for a little performance, but I didn’t want to go sing because I was so shy. My friend said; “Vita, come, lets go!” and she dragged me, I hated her for it at the time, but now I love her for it. In that performance, I sang a part in; What the world needs now and that was the beginning of me performing on stage. They started putting me in the program every year. (chuckles)

Dre: Getting signed to Universal Motown… How did it all go down?

Vita: Well I recorded with a studio called Slam City, with a guy by the name of Chris Allman, and at that point I was really trying to find my own sound, learning to manipulate my voice. You know when you’re young, you start looking up to people and emulating their voices? So that’s why I was really trying to find myself as an artiste.

Dre: Trying to find that niche?

Vita: Exactly! So it came to a point where I started to do that and I recorded four songs and released my Myspace. A few days later, I got a message on Myspace saying; “Hi, I am Evan Rogers and I would like to meet you.” and I was like, “Oh my God!” So he came down and met me, a series of events happened and now I am signed to Universal. It was a very short period of time.

Dre: That’s crazy, how long did it take?

Vita: Well, my Myspace page came out in February, and Evan contacted me in February. They came down in March, and I was signed in June.

Dre: Wow! That is crazy! (laughs)

Vita: (laughs) Yeah I know!

Dre: What happens now that you’ve been signed?

Vita: I’m moving up to the States (U.S.A.) and then I will be going on a promo tour in the U.S.A. for five weeks. Probably then take a break, then do the promo tour in Europe, for how long, I have no idea… And then there’s talk about Asia.

Dre: Is there anything in particular you would like to achieve as a performing artiste?

Vita: Well if I won a Grammy that would be absolutely mindblowing. I don’t know what I’d do the second I heard my name being called. I want to meet all of the amazing people behind the great music we hear every day.

Dre: As a Bajan artiste, signed internationally you know that you will constantly be compared to Rihanna. Does it make you feel like you have to match up to her in some way?

Vita: I don’t see music as a competition, but I can only hope to be as good as Rihanna. She’s incredible and so successful, I really admire her. So I hope to be as good.

CHECK OUT VITA’S DEBUT SINGLE–  ‘LIKE BOOM’ @ http://www.myspace.com/srprecords