Name Lachi Lachi | Website www.lachimusic.com | |
Genres Pop / Singer Songwriter / Fiction Occupation(s) Composer, Singer-songwriter, Producer, Author Labels EMI/Caroline Distribution Trend Def/Sony Music Entertainment | ||
Instruments Piano, Vocals, Guitar | ||
Lachi is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and author based in New York City. Having released numerous albums and singles, Lachi's music is often described as Pop, Dance, or Singer Songwriter.
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Early life
Daughter of Author and Professor Dr. Marcellina Offoha and the sixth of seven children, Lachi began writing songs and short stories at a very early age, and performed in musical ensembles throughout her school years. Lachi has a congenital visual impairment, Coloboma of the retina causing legal blindness.
Lachi attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she created the all female a cappella group The UNC Cadence. She then moved to New York City to embark upon her music and writing career while working towards a master's degree in Music at New York University. Apart from obtaining side music gigs, Lachi worked at the New York District's United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Career
Lachi's music can best be described as Pop, soul and electronic dance music with empowering messages.
On January 24, 2009, Lachi released a piano-driven alternative rock EP "Ugly Beautiful," filled with messages of inner growth. This EP demonstrates Lachi's strong songwriting prowess, harboring elements of jazz-influence through colorful chord progressions and spouts of scatting.
She then got picked up by Fanatic Records/EMI-Caroline Distribution, who spotted her at a South by Southwest showcase and signed her for one album. On July 27, 2010, her self-titled piano-driven alternative pop album "Lachi" was released. Songs from the album found features on Oprah Radio and NPR. During this time, Lachi performed at PrideFest (Milwaukee), opening for Patti LaBelle).
Lachi then teamed up with Gary Pine to put out “It’s Our Time,” a song she wrote to aid in the launch of social music collaboration platform, Mixluv. She also flew out to L.A. to record tracks with Trend Def Productions while putting the finishing touches on her first full-length novel, “The Ivory Staff.”
In June 2015 Lachi released The Boss EP through Trend Def’s Sony Music Entertainment imprint. The EP is a high-energy foray into commercial Pop/Dance touched with Dubstep. The single "Boss" found a prominent feature on Oxygen Networks's Bad Girls Club.
In October 2015 Lachi released her Fiction narrative, The Ivory Staff, under the name M. Lachi through the independent publisher, Library Tales Publishing.
Lachi spent most of 2016 songwriting and composing for independent production companies and artists. In August 2016, Lachi teamed up with Israeli World Music producer Zafrir Ifrach and Moroccan vocalist Maxime Karouchi to create the Mediterranean-infused EDM track Dalale. She again collaborated with Trend Def studios to co-write the song "Rude" which features pop artist Kendra Black and hip hop veteran Snoop Dogg.
In 2017, Lachi released the EDM Hip Hop crossover track "Living A Lie" featuring Styles P.