Call Me Quita Turns Feelings Into Songs You Can Laugh About Later

St. Louis-born artist Call Me Quita doesn't box her sound into a single genre — she describes it simply as "no limits." That openness has shaped her music since she started making it back in 2019, when a melody stuck in her head turned into her first real song. She called up her friend and producer, Timothy McGimpsey, hummed out the idea, and he built the beat around it. As she describes it, that was the moment her first "baby" was born, and the start of a project she's still building on today. Her sound draws from a lineage of soul and R&B voices she grew up loving — Anthony Hamilton, Jagged Edge, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu. What ties them together for her isn't a specific style so much as a feeling. "Music is magic," she says, "and I'm someone who appreciates magic." That reverence for the emotional pull of music shows up in how she talks about her own songwriting — less concerned with genre lines than with capturing a feeling honestly. That emotional throughline is central to what she wants listeners to take from her work. Quita writes toward moments where her feelings and her listeners' feelings run parallel — the kind of songs you can look back on, laugh a little, and recognize how far you've come. It's a reflective, almost diary-like approach to songwriting, built for revisiting rather than just a single listen. Right now, Quita has a new single out and is working on her first EP, a bigger step in introducing her sound to a wider audience. For Atlanta listeners just discovering her, it's an early look at an artist still shaping her identity in real time. She's been documenting the process on Instagram at @callmequita for anyone who wants to follow the journey as it unfolds.