5 reasons why everyone’s watching Chloe X Halle

The talented duo spent the last three years writing, producing and recording their debut album, The Kids Are Alright. “My sister and I like to make music that has interesting sounds and nuances,” says Chloe about their alternative-pop R&B sound. “Beyoncé told us to believe in ourselves, not to dumb down our minds for anyone or to let the world catch up to us. We have loved her so much for sticking with us and writing with us while we’ve been creating this album. We’re just making music in our living room and it makes us really happy to know that she loves it.”

Last year, the sisters joined the cast of Grown-ish, the Yara Shahidi-led Black-ish spin-off on the Freeform network, playing college track-star twins Jazz and Sky (while writing, producing and performing the show’s theme song, of course).

Chloe and Halle were among the talented women – Grimes, Ava Phillippe and Rowan Blanchard – who modeled for the FW18 lookbook for Rodarte, the fashion label of siblings Kate and Laura Mulleavy. “Seeing them interact on set reminded me exactly of us,” says Halle, laughing. “I admire sisterhood because you can be honest with one another. I feel really grateful to have a partner, my sister, because we go through that stuff together. Behind closed doors we have our motivational talks like, ‘Yes! We can do this! We are great!’ I think a lot of the time, with young people, women in particular, you have to give yourself that pep talk before you really stand up for yourself and say something that you’ve been wanting to say forever,” she continues. “When we walk into these studios, and we’re these two little girls in this male-dominated room, it’s like, ‘Okay, so whatcha got?’ Then we play what we have and they’re mind-blown. We want people to look at us like our voices matter. Because we’re finding that in the world today, they do.”

Read the full interview in PORTER’s Summer Escape 2018 issue