Empara Mi tracks feature in Netflix docu-series

Music created by a musician from Guernsey has been used in a new Netflix documentary miniseries.

Empara Mi was one of the composers for the soundtrack and score for Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model - a three-part miniseries which focuses on the controversies surrounding the reality TV show, which has been criticised for its treatment of some contestants.

America's Next Top Model ran for 24 seasons from 2003 to 2018. The reality show pitted groups of aspiring models against each other in weekly photoshoot challenges to win a 12-month contract with a professional agency.

Mi said she delivered 121 tracks for the new documentary series - which was released earlier this year.

The artist and producer said it had taken her five years to produce her last album, and being a part of the documentary had taught her a new discipline.

"Obviously it took me nearly five years to do my last album, that was only 15 tracks," she said.

"I think we ended up delivering 121 tracks for this. So it taught me a discipline that I had never learned."

The Guernsey musician said she was brought in to deliver the soundtrack and score of the three episodes after they had been filmed.

She said: "They already had, you know, sort of a first cut of everything.

"So they'd already filmed everything. They had a good idea of, you know, what they wanted the tone to feel like type of music, you know, inspiration, they were sort of going for very much the tone of the music with the show and you know, feeling very chaotic, being quite cutty."

Mi said working on the series had helped to speed up the making of her next album.

She said: "I've actually already finished my next album, which I started writing at Christmas, and I just recorded it two days ago and I think it was literally because I got so used to churning things out and being super super disciplined with it."

The artist said she had a "new-found confidence for doing things slightly more outside the box" in the future, and was keeping her options open for future projects.

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