In person she is as thoughtful and bright as her lyrics would suggest. "I don't think it's the Bible, it's not the deepest writing in the world, but relative to the genre that I'm in, I can see why people say that." Relatively mature because I'm being put into the Black Music category and most black music is party music," she says, picking up speed. That kind of approach has criticshyping the maturity hook, but India.Arie isn't biting. Video, the chorus rings: "I'm not the average girl from your video / And I ain't built like a supermodel / But I learned to love myself unconditionally / Because I am a queen." India.Arie is 26 years old, but her impressively worldly lyrics mark the singer-songwriter wise beyond her time. Simpson is her surname and it comes from her father, Ralph, a pro basketball player of note in the seventies. India.Arie (pronounced IN-dee-uh ah-REE) is her stage name - the dot separating her real first and middle names. Hopefully I'll be around for a long time and I'll be able to limit the interviews, to pick the ones I want to do." "I think about Sade every time I think about getting old, how she's gotten to a point in her career where she can limit the amount of interviews she does. New and fine now, but she can imagine it getting old.
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