Whether you’re throwing a block party or slow jamming on a warm summer eve, Flohio, Rosalia, Charlotte Dos Santos and the rest of our RnB and Hip Hop musical highlights of the year are sure to hook you up with the right tunes. 🤜🤛 Check them out!
The story of Swedish-Iranian singer-songwriter Snoh Aalegra’s rise reads like a fairytale. She began writing songs at the age of 9, signed a development deal with Sony at 13, then ...
Rosalía is shaking the music industry in Spain and in Europe. "Malamente" has become a musical pandemic entering into Spanish society as few artists have been able to in recent years. It has even crossed musical borders and broke taboos. Her powerful mix of ...
Nowadays, many young artists seem to find the notion of music genres obsolete, and the way they break down barriers to invent new, unlabelled sounds is exhilarating. Typical of this trend, Belgian duo YellowStraps incorporate hip-hop, jazz, R&B, downtempo ...
Trap-influenced pop and vice versa gains more and more traction in the mainstream, but just like every genre and sub-genre, everything has to do with the attitude, and owning, or being, the message that you want to deliver to the audience. Lousita Cash, as her ...
Funmi Ohiosumah’s success has been a long time in the making. The rapper and MC, who spent the first eight years of her life in Nigeria, before her family relocated to South London, spent years as a teen watching older kids in the music studio of her local ...
Nature looms large in the music of 30-year-old Charlotte Dos Santos, no surprise given her upbringing amid the pristine beauty of Norway. Her songs are called things like ‘Red Clay’ and ‘Harvest Time’, and she’s talked at length of being in tune with the ...
With her soulful vocals and joyful energy, Lithuanian singer Beatrich is a pop sensation who stays true to her generation, exploring her youth’s spectrum of life, love, and heartache through her straightforward yet bubbly pop, and her delicate lyrical ...
Jesse Markin knows all about being an outsider. The Liberian-born rapper-turned-singer-songwriter grew up in the Finnish town of Viljakkala, a provincial settlement of just 2,000 people that was 100% white. But he wasn’t simply, as he puts it ...
Biig Piig - a name chosen by Jess Smyth largely to rid herself of any expectations when it came to her music - comes from a pan-European background. Born in Ireland, and raised in Spain and London, she comes to her brand of urban soul music wearing that varied ...
