To the ladies of Brick & Lace, their name represents the duality and complexity of the everywoman. “But we still felt that there was an edge missing, so I came up with ‘Brick.’ It has stuck with us ever since and has evolved with us.” Indeed, who they are is evident in their moniker: “Our mother came up with the name ‘Lace’ and we immediately liked it,” explains the incisively passionate Nyanda. “It’s not fabricated at all it’s who we are.” “We are a hybrid,” affirms Nailah in her effortlessly sexy West-Indian lilt. The amalgamated sound that makes up their Kon Live/180/Geffen debut, Love Is Wicked, is unique, though also at once very familiar.īorn to a Jamaican father and an American mother and raised predominantly in Kingston, Jamaica –on an opulent musical diet of reggae, R&B, hip hop, pop and country– 26-year-old Nyanda and 24-year-old Nailah Thorbourne couldn’t help but be trans-eclectic. Part urban singers and part urbane songstresses, sibling duo Brick & Lace are genre-busters who staunchly defy the 30-second pitch. Akon’s Brick & Lace release the new single “Love is Wicked” from their forthcoming Summer album Love Is Wicked! Scroll down below to hear it.
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