MUSIC AUDITIONS
HIP HOP
MISSOURI, USA
15-04-2025 19:05 GMT
KD Nelley
Current Score: ★☆☆☆☆ ☆☆
Biography:
KD Nelley describes her native city of St. Louis as “A boiling pot ready to boil over.”
“You gotta be on the look out for snakes and rats trying to bring you down just like any other city but here, people ain’t thinking about squashing or fighting. Where I’m from, death is always the result to how beef gets handled and it’s most likely something petty that sparked that same fire in the first place.” born Ashley Hundley in 1998, KD learned quickly, and easily, her ins and outs in order to stay alive, while using music as a way for her to escape. With influences like Michael Jackson and Nas, she really wanted to make music that spoke about her painful truth. Truth about her life, her family, her environment but as a 7 year old little girl, what much did she have to say?
Linking up with a childhood friend, she decides to put off writing her truth and begin to create a Pop group she later called Mind Over Drama. KD busied herself with performing at school dances and birthday parties with material recorded in her small bedroom through her school years. By the end of the year 2020 though, the group decided to be no more which ultimately resulted into KD Nelley picking back up a sound she seemed to have forgotten. With her raspy, dark but light singsonging voice, her remarkable story telling and her rare ability of versatility, she began to speak her real truth for the first time ever. Releasing her first single as an official solo artist, Found Me, in early July 2021.