This is New Wisco Weekend. I'm Lisa Hale. A Wisconsin artist is starting to get
attention for both the power of her words and her voice. We turn to our friends
with the Max and Gradio Music Show. As Shikari Desiree joins them live in
studio at Civic Media's headquarters in Madison. With a voice that commands
attention and infectious spirit that radiates joy. Shikari Desiree.
Let me get her at Desiree embodies the magic of performance, a passionate singer.
Each note she delivers is infused with her love for art and gratitude for the opportunity
to share it. Well hello thank you for having me. Hey everybody listen to how y'all doing.
Shikari tell us how you got started music. What's your backstory? Well the story is I sang before
I spoke and I can remember it the right way. That's very true. This is Shikari Desiree.
95 dollars left to my name.
Shikari Desiree is struggling wondering what to do. I don't know how to do anything illegal.
Yeah, on my mind all the time, why am I gonna do?
Off to alternate reality, my mind goes in hopes of a man might who'd be my sugar daddy.
I'll be quainty, dainty, put my napkin across my lap. I love you guys.
Go on for the hot fight. See you in a pretty young, really such a wash,
straining along across your home. Lead the way as long as you pay.
Oh, hey, hey, happy. Cause my happy ass ain't been happy in a while.
Sugar daddy, let my feline incline. How can I, when I always have to provide?
It gets hard for a single parent. Baby gets sick, can't go to daycare, can't go to daycare.
Got a misswork, misswork, get a strike. Another strike will lose your life.
Yeah, and a force to really survive. And let somebody in on your circumstances tell you're pushing on.
What if I'm folding under pressure?
If you make me think I'm wrong for having to push and push.
I'll stay pretty, smell so good you want to eat me alive.
If you provide, hey for everything. I'll be sure to have a clean home.
I'll stay pretty, smell so good you want to eat me alive.
I'll stay pretty, smell so good you want to eat me alive.
I'll live such with my divine feminine. I can only do that on your side.
And I sugar daddy by me, chakari, daisy, breed.
I'm speechless. That was totally amazing. Where do you get lyrical inspiration from?
Okay, so experiences in this life, people come up to you trying to pay your bills, but you know motives behind these things.
I'll take those things and I'll just make a song out of it. My experience is how I make my music for sure.
Chakari, last year you released a full album and I read in the ismess that you recorded the vocal tracks on your phone in the bathroom.
Everything you hear tonight was recorded in my phone in the bathroom. That's how I do it.
I imagine there's got to be a natural reverb there, huh?
It is. There's a closed space door, closed windows, closed. It's nice.
It's like when you're singing in the shower, you know? It literally is without the water.
Well, let's hear it. Recipio, you are listening to Chakari, daisy, re.
Hello, you have a prepaid call from.
Chakari.
Hello, you have a prepaid call from.
Chakari.
I can tell, but I fly right away.
And the thing of you is you are like the way.
Thank you for being a part of New Wisco Weekend. Your look at Mental Health.
New Wisco Weekend is written by Terry Barr and Lisa Hale,
directed and produced by Lisa Hale.
Our lead correspondent is Terry Barr with features from Joanne Croulotte, Parker Olson,
Peach Waba, and commentator Amanda Nimmer.
If you have a story you'd like to hear covered, please feel free to email me anytime.
Lisa.Hale at civicmedia.us.
I'm civic media Northeast Wisconsin Bureau Chief Lisa Hale for WISS and WGBW.
Be unstoppable.
