It consists of Naomi Sarah Lesley and Binkie Electrik Red comes from both New York and Canada Binkie and Lesley who attended New York's prestigious Laguardia School of Performing Arts met with Toronto born Naomi and Sarah while individually performing back-up dancer for artists such as Usher and Mariah Carey Ciara After running into each other again and again and lots of auditions the girls began to form a friendship, "We would meet at our off time and strategize," says Naomi "For some of us the ultimate was to work with a fantastic performer as Janet or Madonna, "explains Binkie" But when you hit that mark it feels ok now when I want to take it? In our case, making music was the next plateau to strive "
The move to step to the front of scetion may have seemed risky girls knew they were ready "Everyone had lucrative careers," says Lesley, "but we got the confidence to say, Ok, let us stop all this and go away on its own without help from someone we worked for '
While their individual career began with dancing girls all grew up studying music Binkie activity early from his father who was a member of the legendary Caribbean soul group Kid Creole and the Coconuts Lesley began vocal training at age three while Sarah studied piano as a young girl when they decided to form a group of girls decided to name Electrik Red, which they considered their collective exuded sensuality
In 2005 the quartet recorded a demo and instead of calling on his long list of family and friends, pleaseacts in the music business Electrik Red's decision to keep its new projects under wraps "What's crazy is that so many people that we knew we never acted on the demo, we were concerned about our music," says Naomi "It felt like we could not go to the management of a label until we feel we had the best music possible, we think you only have one shot "
In February 2008 that a shot came when Electrik Red secured a contract with Def Jam The girls were then paired with the hottest hit Decision-makers in town The Dream and Tricky Stewart, who has worked with everyone from Mary J Blige to Beyonce "We all looked at each other and said" Holy shit guys! "remember Binkie" Look where we are right now! "
The Multi-talented team is now ready to launch their debut album, which is fasterBT has been greatly anticipated thanks to the massive buzz surrounding Electrik Red's first single 'Drink In My Cup "The slinky yet powerful atmosphere" Drink In My Cup "presents the girl floating harmonies and edgy phrasing mixture of street and seduction clarifies Electrik Red takes mainstream R & B to a whole new level
"You know how back then Spice Girls had Girl Power?" asks Sarah "Here is the lady power girl power on crack!" I want people to hear four strong women who are very comfortable with their sexuality and what we can bring to the world, "says Lesley," We will be heard damnit! "
