Biography
Originally from South Africa with Indian heritage, pop singer-songwriter Candice Pillay relocated to the United States at nineteen. Momentum arrived in the early 2010s once she secured songwriting work on Rihanna’s “Cockiness (Love It)” and both wrote and produced multiple selections for Christina Aguilera’s Lotus album. After adding further credits alongside Tinie Tempah in 2015, Pillay issued her mixtape The Mood Kill, coinciding with several prominent releases that bore her contributions. Rihanna’s single “American Oxygen” appeared first, followed months later by Dr. Dre’s Compton, which carried her writing across five tracks and her vocals on two of them. Still later that year, ex-Danity Kane members Shannon Bex and Aubrey O’Day launched their slightly left-of-center Dumblonde project via a self-titled album on which she supplied writing for every track except one.
Singles
