Mickey Shiloh

Mickey Shiloh, a singer and songwriter rooted in pop-infused R&B, began writing material at twelve and placed her initial recordings online just two years later. Shortly after that, she linked up via MySpace with producer Chad Beatz, which led to her debut major feature on Twista’s 2009 cut “Jump Off.” That same year the Bay Area native inked a publishing agreement with Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins and supplied co-writing on Janet Jackson’s disco throwback “Make Me,” which topped Billboard’s Hot Club Dance Songs chart. Over the ensuing years she amassed further credits alongside Shontelle, Britney Spears, Pitbull, and LL Cool J. Another landmark arrived in 2015 when she co-wrote Janet Jackson’s “Night” alongside Jackson and the songwriting and production veterans Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. “Drunk on the Mic,” a track she cut with Shamtrax, appeared on her SoundCloud that November; reality-television personality Kylie Jenner then alerted her Snapchat audience to the candid recording, whose opening verse Shiloh had improvised on the spot, thereby introducing Shiloh to fresh listeners. An official independent release of “Drunk on the Mic” followed in January 2016 and was soon succeeded by the Secretnoise collaboration “Levitate.”