For Hong Kong-bound Kelis, food is never far from her mind - or her songs
With music and food being the twin passions of Harlem-raised singer who’s performing at ePrix after-party, she wants more than ever to open a restaurant, she tells us
Kelis – best known for bringing all the boys to the yard with her hit single Milkshake – is heading back to Asia for a performance at an ePrix after party at Play club on Sunday, October 9. “I’m really excited to be coming back to Hong Kong. It’s such an amazing city with incredible people and food,” she says.
It’s no surprise that the New York-born singer, who has sold more than six million records and was last in our region last year for a concert in Macau, mentions food – she is also a chef trained by Le Cordon Bleu and this summer teamed up with London restaurant Le Bun to open a pop-up venture, Kelis x Le Bun, offering South American-inspired street food.
“It was amazing. I’ve always dreamed of doing this and now more than ever I want to open a restaurant,” says the R&B singer.
For Kelis Rogers, who was born to a black jazz musician father and a Chinese-Puerto Rican mother who ran her own catering business, food and music have been twin passions since she was a child.
“Food and music are similar in a lot of ways. Creatively, both allow you to express yourself. In a lot of ways I fell in love with food and music as a child – my mother being a culinary chef and my father a musician,” says the 37-year-old artist.
I fell in love with food and music as a child – my mother being a culinary chef and my father a musician
And growing up in Harlem also shaped her, giving her the drive and ambition to make something of her talent.