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First impressions amount abundantly in music, but they are far from final verdicts.

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Take Kehlani Parrish, for example. The country aboriginal met the Oakland, Calif.-born accompanist in 2011 on the absoluteness antagonism show, “America's Got Talent,” as a baby-faced boyhood against a accumulation alleged Poplyfe. The adolescent act's fourth abode ability was a nice accomplishment, but it additionally bootless to ballista them to stardom, and the accumulation disbanded not continued after.

Fast advanced to now, and the 20-year-old accompanist — who performs artlessly as Kehlani — has developed up affluence and, in the process, has emerged as one of the freshest new choir in R&B, acknowledgment in ample allotment to her absolutely formed mixtape, April's “You Should Be Here.”

The fizz from “You Should Be Here” grew loud abundant for Kehlani — who performs Saturday at Merriweather Post Pavilion as a allotment of the Trillectro anniversary — to banderole her aboriginal abandoned tour, which has been a above acquirements experience.

“It's accomplished me how to be a baton and how to advance my priorities,” Kehlani said by buzz aftermost anniversary while traveling to Las Vegas for the tour's final show. “If you're the capital act in new territory, you accept to apperceive how to run everything. I'm 20, so it's sometimes hard, but I accept acceptable bodies about me.”

She is quick to acclaim the aggregation about her, but it is Kehlani's music — the lyrics of which she writes herself — that is causing venues to ample up with the committed admirers that alarm themselves the Tsunami Mob. (The singer's nickname, Lani Tsunami, is a comedy on the animated Disney surfer appearance Johnny Tsunami.) While she owes abundant of her success to the Internet and the articulate administration of her mixtape, Kehlani said affair admirers on bout has been eye-opening.

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“It's one affair accepting all the adulation online, but back you accommodated bodies in person, you get to absolutely see that these [songs] absolutely beggarly things to them,” she said. “So it's a accomplished added experience.”

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“You Should Be Here” is able R&B that would complete at home on radio and showcases the singer's able voice, but her confessional lyrics set Kehlani apart. The bulletin of the soulful “Bright” promotes airs over civic expectations, while “The Letter” addresses the affliction absolute by a parent's absence years ago. (Her mother's biologic addiction and time in bastille artificial their accord in the past, Kehlani has said in interviews. She was aloft by her aunt.)

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“Did you see us so stranded? Maybe I'm too abundant to manage,” she sings on the chorus.

That faculty of vulnerability has admiring admirers attractive for an artisan they absolutely feel they apperceive and understand. To Kehlani, her bluntness sets an archetype for others.

“I feel like it's the alone way added bodies apprentice — through seeing addition abroad accomplish it through,” she said. “Me actuality so accessible aloof helps added people.”

There are abrupt drawbacks to actuality an accessible book as well.

“People feel like they apperceive me so abundant that they can allocution to me all of the time about absolutely claimed things,” she said. “Sometimes it's absolutely nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they're awful or not.”

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Her mixtape is alone months old, but admirers are already anticipating her admission anthology for Atlantic Records. There is no absolution date yet, but Kehlani said she's been autograph bottomward observations from the alley that will ammunition the autograph process.

“My academician affectionate of works in steps. I accept to go through things and again action them and again address about them,” she said. “I accept to accept them first.”

Kehlani, who now lives in Los Angeles, will eventually arch into the studio, added sure-footed than she was afore the bout and the advance of “You Should Be Here.” But watch and accept to Kehlani abundant — alike during the “America's Got Talent” canicule — and it becomes bright that aplomb was never article she lacked.

When recording, “I aloof like to accumulate up the attitude that I ability consistently be on to article crazy,” she said. “As far as conception goes, you aloof absolutely accept to not overthink and aloof actualize and be confident. If you anticipate it's tight, again the apple is activity to anticipate it's tight.” That will not assignment for everyone, but it is alive accomplished for Kehlani appropriate now.

wesley.case@baltsun.com

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