UB First Listen: The Bonfyre Taps Wale for ‘U Remind Me’ | ‘Love, Lust & Letdowns’ Available Tomorrow
The Bonfyre was one of the first artists signed to L.A. Reid‘s new label Hitco. She released her debut EP “Ready to Love” in 2018. Contemporary R&B influenced with the 80s and 90s mixed in.
Her new album “Love, Lust & Letdowns” will be released tomorrow, May 1st, 2020.
UB has your First Listen of her new single, featuring Wale entitled “U Remind Me.”
“Got me runnin’ it back in my mind
Baby, I got to pause
Get a rewind (Skrrt)
Now I can’t get it out of my mind
How you make it so new
Like the first time”
Late last year The Bonfyre finished up a tour with Fantasia and Robin Thick. Following the success of her two singles “Automatic” and “U Say” featuring 6lack; both hitting #1 on Urban AC.
Tracklisting for “Love, Lust & Letdowns”:
U Remind Me (feat. Wale)
Talk 2 Me Baby
New Furniture
Pay Them No Mind
U Say (feat. 6LACK)
Can’t Choose (feat. Marc E. Bassy)
The singer behind the Bonfyre, Chelsey LaRue, started promoting her talent with cover versions uploaded to YouTube. The clips caught the attention of a club owner, who arranged for her to perform at his Harlem venue and subsequently brought her to the attention of producer Yancey Richardson.
Through Richardson, Raphael Saadiq was made aware of LaRue and eager to work extensively with the developing artist after she relocated from her native Chicopee, Massachusetts to Atlanta, Georgia. A version of Refugee Camp All-Stars’ “The Sweetest Thing,” uploaded to SoundCloud, led to a deal with L.A. Reid’s Hitco label and studio work with the likes of Harmony Samuels, Keyz, and Ayo the Producer, among numerous other songwriters and producers, as Saadiq remained in her corner.
Ready to Love, the Bonfyre‘s six-track debut for Hitco, was released in August 2018. The tracks neatly incorporated references to early-‘80s hits by the likes of Evelyn “Champagne” King, Mary Jane Girls, Keni Burke, and DeBarge, elements of which were repurposed the following decade via the likes of LL Cool J, Mary J. Blige, Blackstreet, and Groove Theory. Included on the EP was the single “Automatic.”
