Biography
Truth are master collaborators. Their Shadow People project with Youngsta earlier this year and regular link-ups with Taso, Joker, D Double E, Killa P and Sgt Pokes are just some of many examples of their co-operative mindset.
But if there’s been one particularly prominent collaborator over the last four years it’s been fellow New Zealand songwriter and singer Phoebe Leyten AKA Lelijveld.
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Ever since appearing on Truth’s 2014 album Hollow World, Lelvijevld’s distinctive smoky, jazzy and subtly dreamy vocals have compounded Truth’s mystic, foreboding signature with an additional layer of soulful depth and introspection. From early collaborations such as Evil Eye and Recollections to the most recent track Crushed, on the Mushrooms EP, Lelijveld has appeared on every significant Truth release creating a consistency that borders on unofficial band member territory. This fact is heightened by the fact she’s only ever collaborated with Truth and no other acts.
Yet with a beguiling style that sits somewhere between Portishead’s Beth Gibbons and Little Dragon’s Yukimi Negano, you can be sure she’s had collaboration requests from across the scene… And in time she’s likely to appear on many other productions. But for now she’s Truth’s not-so-secret weapon. And this is how she got here:
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.