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"You&amp;#x27;ve seen The Voice, American Idol, X-Factor, and countless other reality-TV singing and music competitions, but believe me when I say The Kandi Factory&amp;amp;#8212;Bravo&amp;#x27;s newest show with Real Housewives of Atlanta star and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Kandi Burruss&amp;amp;#8212;is different. Rather than your straightforward singing show, Kandi Factory takes a closer look at what it takes to become an artist. And Kandi herself stopped by to tell us why we should all tune in for tonight&amp;#x27;s premiere... Tell us about The Kandi Factory. Kandi: Well, I&amp;amp;#8217;m super excited and nervous because it&amp;amp;#8217;s my first time stepping outside of Real Housewives. But The Kandi Factory is totally different, and it&amp;amp;#8217;s not even the same as other music competition shows. First of all, we have all original songs. I wrote each song specifically for each of the contestants on the show. That&amp;amp;#8217;s so many. Kandi: Yeah, there were a couple of people who couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t pull off what I had for them, so I had to write up something else. So it ended up being more, but it was different, exciting. It was challenging for me, just as much as it was for them. On most singing competitions on TV now, the contestants come out and sing a song, the judges say something, and that&amp;amp;#8217;s it. Kandi: Exactly. You don&amp;amp;#8217;t really get to see them behind-the-scenes and all that it takes to get them where they need to be performance-wise. We do song, stage show, look, and then they have to perform in front of a live audience, showing what they&amp;amp;#8217;ve learned that week&amp;amp;#8212;five days, not even a full week. I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s nice that you get to see the artist development process. People don&amp;amp;#8217;t even do that anymore. When I first came out, record labels actually put their artists in artist development. Because you&amp;amp;#8217;re mentoring all these young artists, who are some up-and-coming performers today that you look at? Kandi: I like the new artist Sevyn Streeter. I knew her when she was in a girl group that I had actually worked with, RichGirl. She&amp;amp;#8217;s brand-new on the scene, and she&amp;amp;#8217;s very talented. I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s time for some new blood. Seriously, the people who are out now&amp;amp;#8212;majority of them have been out for years. There&amp;amp;#8217;s not that many fresh, fresh meat. Is there anybody on the show you think is going to be big? Kandi: Yes! I don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to give away who won; I don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to say names, but there were a few that I feel like have the potential to be big artists. You&amp;amp;#8217;ve worked with so many amazing artists&amp;amp;#8212;who has been your favorite? Kandi: Well, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve had some great experiences with a lot of them, but I have to say that I really had a lot of fun with Alicia Keys when we worked together. She was very cool, fun, laid-back. Of course, I love Fantasia like a sister. Who would you&amp;amp;#8217;d like to work with again if you had the chance? Kandi: I definitely can see myself working again with Fantasia. We work together all the time. Oh! One person I haven&amp;amp;#8217;t really talked to that much that I would love to work with is Pink. I love how she&amp;amp;#8217;s transformed over the years, and I would love to be able to work with what she&amp;amp;#8217;s doing now. I did two songs on her album Can&amp;#x27;t Take Me Home. She&amp;amp;#8217;s totally different from then. I love her edge. And, of course, I&amp;amp;#8217;d love to work with Beyonce. Wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t we all! How have you felt your music and your songwriting has changed over the years? Kandi: Well, there&amp;#x27;s been a lot of growth. Vocally, my voice has changed over the years. It&amp;#x27;s a lot stronger; my range is totally different. As you grow older, your voice changes. Songwriting-wise, I think I take more chances now. Especially now with Kandi Factory, I was able to do almost every genre of music. I did rock, I did pop, I did rap. That&amp;amp;#8217;s kind of why I like writing more&amp;amp;#8212;I can write any type of music and nobody&amp;amp;#8217;s going to judge because half the time, they don&amp;amp;#8217;t even look at the credits. Do you like this new show better, or do you still prefer Housewives? I know it&amp;amp;#8217;s scary going off on your own. Kandi: Yeah, it&amp;#x27;s very scary! I love my own show obviously because it&amp;amp;#8217;s not about the drama&amp;amp;#8212;even though we do have drama. But it&amp;#x27;s not constant drama between me and somebody. Whereas Housewives, it&amp;amp;#8217;s always some back-and-forth BS. Sometimes that can be a bit much when you&amp;amp;#8217;re doing the same thing over and over again. But we do have a lot of fun. I love the trips we take and when we&amp;#x27;re acting silly. They show less of that stuff, but that, to me, is what keeps us going all those months of taping. Overall, I think Housewives is good for everything I&amp;amp;#8217;m doing outside of the show business-wise. It helps bring attention to my work, as far as Bedroom Kandi and my clothing boutique TAGS. How are the wedding plans going (to Todd Tucker)? Kandi: We haven&amp;amp;#8217;t made any plans yet, but we did come up with a date that the both of us want. You met through Bravo&amp;amp;#8212;did Todd have to quit when you started dating? Kandi: He did end up quitting the show. That was a big decision for him to have to make. He resigned, but then they came back and said they didn&amp;amp;#8217;t want him to quit. He still works with the same production company, but he doesn&amp;#x27;t work on our show. It wasn&amp;#x27;t that much of a conflict because he didn&amp;#x27;t work on set. He&amp;#x27;s in the offices doing budgets and stuff like that. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t think it was a big deal, but we kept our relationship secret at first because we didn&amp;amp;#8217;t know how the production company or network would think or feel about it. And you didn&amp;amp;#8217;t want to call anything out until you knew what it is. Kandi: Exactly. He took a chance, and thank goodness everybody was supportive because it could&amp;amp;#8217;ve been the total opposite. For him, it was weird to then be on the show. He knows how you end up getting edited and looking stupid. He was afraid he would say or do the wrong thing. Don&amp;#x27;t forget to tune in to the premiere on Bravo TONIGHT at 10/9C."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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