At just 21 years old, Kacy Hill has modeled for American Apparel, performed as a backup dancer on Kanye West's Yeezus tour and is now signed to the superstar's G.O.O.D. Music label, which just released her EP Bloo via Vulture.
The collection of songs on Bloo are more of a teaser to the full album, hopefully showing how she's progressed from an ambitious 18-year-old to a promising artist with the world's eyes on her.
"Foreign Fields" is the stand-out track that already has a music video behind it, but with his EP you get a few remixes as well as two new songs "Shades of Blue" and "Arms Length."
Hill's meteoric rise comes from a sense of confidence in knowing what she wants. At just 18 years old she packed up and moved to Los Angeles looking for something more exciting than her Arizona upbringing. A gig at American Apparel gave her a break at joining up with West's team, which was looking of nine professional dancers and three models to join the tour.
"I'm a terrible dancer," Hill admitted in an interview with Vulture, as she explained most of the dancing was static movements.
Just a year into that she decided her small demo song "Experience" had gained enough traction for her to quit the tour and pursue a music career. Shortly after she got a call from G.O.O.D. Music about a contract.
"I had no idea Kanye had even heard the song, but it was such a natural progression from the tour to working with his camp," she said. "He's such a commanding person and you just end up learning a lot being around someone like that, someone who knows how to get things that they need done in a way that involves very few words, and not even in a mean way. He's not at all demanding. But he knows he doesn't have to be rude or mean to accomplish what he wants. He just knows what he wants, he knows how to get it, and how to get it easily. I appreciate that."
