FKA Twigs, real name Tahliah Barnett, gained popularity this year,making a mark on social media for her wildly good dancing and eclectic sense of style. Now, her rumored new beau is gaining the singer more publicity than ever before.
Actor Robert Pattinson, once the on-again-off-again boyfriend of Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart, has flown Twigs out to New York with him. The pair have allegedly been seeing each other for a month.
But according to sources, Twigs is in no hurry to go public, despite reports of the couple getting serious very quickly, as she does not want to draw comparison to Robert’s high-profile ex.
Twigs, 26, hails from England and was introduced to Pattinson, 28, by mutual friends. She grew up in rural Gloucestershire, with her Jamaican father and her mom who has English and Spanish roots.
About aspiring to get out of her country surroundings and become an artist, in an 2013 interview, she said, “I was never the pretty girl at school. I’m tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner. I was always kind of off– a little weird, wanting to be a ballet dancer or have opera lessons.”
Check out Twigs in action below in her Queen of the Damned inspired video for “Two Weeks.”