4 Interesting Facts About "Session 32" Beauty Summer Walker

If you don’t have Summer Walker on your playlist, is it even a playlist at this point?

I came across the R&B singer after a friend sent her 2-minute acoustic love letter “Session 32” my way last year and like anyone else who’d been put on to the rising star, an Atlanta native through and through, I was instantly hooked. Scouring Apple Music for my next fix, songs like “Shame” and “Deep” let me know Summer was definitely something special—she was using her shadowy sweet vocals to say all the things introverted women everywhere had a hard time saying…and it felt right on time. Now, appearing on Apple Music’s Up Next, Summer lets us in on how she got to be so withdrawn and where self-expression is concerned, it seems music is her saving grace. “I love music with all my heart. I just have to do it—I actually don’t have a choice. It’s like how I have to breathe. That’s my drug…I’m addicted to it,” she explains.

Four things we learned about the LVRN/Interscope Records beauty on the flip, plus look out for a new EP from Summer this Friday.

Summer grew up in a big family environment, but all that changed when her parents got divorced. She said in Up Next, “We got older…my parents got a divorce, so it’d be, like, just me again. As time went on I didn’t really hang out with people. It takes a lot of energy out of me to maintain multiple relationships.”

She seems most likely to explain herself through her music. “Whenever something is completely bothering me, I like to hold it in ‘cause I don’t talk to a lot of people. That’s why, a lot of times, my songs are emotional,” she said.

Adding some insight to her personality, her mom explained “At times, she just kind of hibernates and she internalizes quite a bit. Sometimes, when she really has deep thoughts and things on her mind, she goes and sits and she gets that guitar out. And she just sits and plays it and that’s just how she expresses herself.”

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She used to work at the strip club and says she’s never going to have a “real job.” LVRN label co-founder Justice Baiden said in the clip, “When I first started following her on Instagram, she was working at the strip club and the next video would be her playing the acoustic guitar. That’s literally two different people that aren’t supposed to exist in one. She’s just a constant push and pull of, like, her trying to find herself.”

Though Summer loves performing, she didn’t get in the game to become famous. “I never really liked being in front of people or being the center of attention—it’s very nerve-wrecking. If I could really just slide music under the door and people get to enjoy it, that’s great,” she said.