Olivia Sinclair At just 12 years young, the rapper from Wales, UK is quickly becoming a viral sensation as she spreads motivational messages through her songs. Olivia Sinclair revealed her love for singing publically two years ago through Instagram. Her fresh lyrical talent has been sculpted through the influence and covering of current artists including Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Cardi B and Iggy Azalea. Despite her ability, Olivia Sinclair found herself a victim of negative online criticism (trolling) which discouraged and disheartened her. She gave up for some time, thinking that she didn’t want to do it anymore. Thankfully, she did pick herself up again and decided to write a song about her experience - here came her debut single ‘Troll Doll’.
has now amassed over 40 thousand followers and has released further cover songs and two more original singles, ‘Fake Friend’ and her latest one ‘Oli Bop’. She has just finished creating upcoming single ‘Anyway’, with a multi-platinum selling producer, and kindly shares her journey with us… Tell us a little about yourself and how you started singing. Hello, I’m Olivia Sinclair. I’m 12 years old and I’m from Wales. Well, I started singing from a really young age because my mum used to be in a girl band, so I grew up with music and she loved it - she still does! I always loved singing.
I started rapping… Well, technically, we were in the car listening to Nicki Minaj and I knew one of the raps, so I started proper hardcore rapping. My mum was like “oh my gosh, you can rap, really?” We weren’t put on this world to hate, And I was like “yeah?” … So we decided we were put here to love and to make a rap account. appreciate. ‘Troll Doll’ describes the hurt feelings of those receiving online Your initial beginnings brought on abuse and also shames those giving out negative online feedback (trolls), can unnecessary negativity. This show of you give some motivational words to strength against bullying helped Olivia anyone in a similar situation? Sinclair gain positive interest from the media. She was asked to perform at the So, yes, I did get bullied. I got bullied in Kids London Fashion Week, shared her school and I got bullied out of school. story for Glamour UK’s And, I was thinking maybe I should just #BlendOutBulling campaign, and was give up and all the hate would go away. personally invited to the Kids Voice But then, I was like, I’m just gonna carry on going… auditions. Olivia Sinclair’s career is going strong Just don’t give up on your dream. Just and she is growing in confidence as she carry on going. The haters opinions gives herself more to her passion. She 24
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