As Janine and the Mixtape, Auckland, New Zealand's Janine Foster crafts moody R&B inspired by legends like Aaliyah and Mariah Carey and the atmospheric sounds of Sigur Rós and Bon Iver. As a child, she was encouraged by her father to write songs and play guitar; by age 14, she was playing open-mike nights. In 2010, Foster graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Music and also won the university's award for singer/songwriter of the year. After releasing her debut single, "Bullets," in 2012, she moved to New York to work on the Dark Mind EP. Drawing inspirat...