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Kesha

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Reclaimed her own catalogue and her own name, and now plays the party records and the hard-won ones in the same set.

Kesha Rose Sebert is an American pop singer and songwriter who grew up in Nashville, the daughter of songwriter Pebe Sebert, and began her career writing and singing hooks before breaking through as a solo artist. Her early records leaned on talk-sung verses, Auto-Tune, and party-oriented dance-pop, with "Tik Tok" among the best known of them.

A protracted legal dispute with producer Dr. Luke dominated much of the following decade and shaped the music that came after it, which moved toward rawer vocals and country, gospel and rock textures alongside the electronic pop. She has since returned to releasing music independently. Live, her sets tend to combine the early club material with the later, more openly personal songs.

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