Music

Mixi

About This Incoming! Artist

Nothing about 25-year-old Mixi is ordinary — from her name to her off-the-color-wheel hair to that "where's-the-party" cheer she carries so effortlessly. It's what made her stand out to casting executives on Fuse TV's reality series, Redemption Song, in which 11 girls competed for a second chance at life and a music career. Well, that and the bottle of booze she brought to the audition, which earned her the title, "Blackout Drunk." "I wasn't smashed or anything," Mixi defends weeks after her win. "It was Smirnoff Ice, who can get drunk off of that?!"

Of course, now that she's scored a recording contract with Geffen Records, the hard work, pressure and daily demands will only intensify. "In my first meeting with Ron Fair after the show, I told him I wanted to do a big band thing with a hip-hop beat, and it didn't seem like he was getting it," she says. "So I thought, 'I need to show him what I hear in my mind,' and I put a song together."

Co-produced by Jack Joseph Puig, that song, "I Miss Those Days (Ghost)," about growing up and looking back, ended up being the first single. "All the songs I've written in the last few years have been inspirational," says Mixi. "They're meant to get people in a better mood and feeling positive."

Related Links

• Mixi on MySpace
• Mixi on Fuse's Redemption Song