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		<title>Amaarae Takes Over Vevo with Live Performance of “Princess Going Digital”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Arthur]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Ghanaian-American singer-songwriter, <strong>Amaarae</strong>, has released a live performance of “<strong>Princess Going Digital</strong>” for Vevo.</p>



<p>“Princess Going Digital” is from her recent album “‘<a href="https://www.bellanaija.com/2023/06/amaarae-shares-fountain-baby/"><strong>Fountain Baby</strong></a>” released last year in June. The album reveals Amaarae as a fearless creator and inhabitor of experimental sonic worlds.</p>



<p>Vevo’s cameras capture a fresh perspective on Amaarae’s dynamic delivery. Channelling an inner emcee, she commands the stage, effortlessly switching between confident mic work, captivating eye contact, and rapid-fire lyrical bursts.</p>



<p>Enjoy the live performance below:</p>



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		<title>Watch Amaarae’s New Music Video for “Angels In Tibet”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Arthur]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ghanaian-American singer-songwriter,&#160;Amaarae, has released the official video for her song “Angels In Tibet,” from her second album “Fountain&#8230;]]></description>
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<p>Ghanaian-American singer-songwriter,&nbsp;<strong>Amaarae</strong>, has released the official video for her song “<strong>Angels In Tibet</strong>,” from her second album “<strong>Fountain Baby</strong>,” which debuted in June last year.</p>



<p>Directed by&nbsp;<strong>Yavez Anthonio</strong>, the video features performances from dancers&nbsp;<strong>Hamly Taverz</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Beaulexx</strong>.</p>



<p>Enjoy</p>



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		<title>Kidi, Amaarae, Gyakie Land Headies Nominations</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Team aftown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 23:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Artists Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amaarae]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ghanaian music stars Kidi, Amaarae and Gyakie found their names in the nominees list of this year&#8217;s awards,&#8230;]]></description>
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<p><strong>Ghanaian music stars Kidi, Amaarae and Gyakie found their names in the nominees list of this year&#8217;s awards, which was released today Tuesday May 24, 2022.</strong></p>
<p>All three singers were nominated for the Best West African Artiste Of The Year category. This category seem to be a competitive one as it comprises of the likes of Aya Nakamura from Mali, Angelique Kidjo from Benin and Nelson Freitas from Cape Verde.</p>
<p>In the just ended Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, all three took home awards each from different categories. it was however a bigger win for Kidi this year who landed the ultimate award of all, The Artiste of the Year.</p>
<p>It is hoped that one of these stars brings the award home.</p>
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		<title>Amaarae&#8217;s &#8216;Sad Girlz Luv Money&#8217; Debuts on Billboard Hot 100</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Team aftown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ghanaian-American recording artist and producer, Amaarae has just scored a milestone in her music career as her single&#8230;]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ghanaian-American recording artist and producer, Amaarae has just scored a milestone in her music career as her single &#8216;Sad Girlz  Luv Money&#8217; debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.</p>
<p>The single which secured the 80th spot on the Weekly Chart is a collaborative effort of Amaarae, Molly &amp; American songstress, Kali Uchi. She is Ghana&#8217;s first artist to be featured on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Ama Serwah Genfi (born July 4, 1994), known professionally as Amaarae, is a Ghanaian-American singer, songwriter, producer, and engineer known for her work around representation of gender and race in music.</p>
<p>According to a tweet by the official Billboard chart account, the record has earned Amaarae and Moliy their first career entries on the chart.</p>
<p>“I stand for African women before I stand for anything else. I’m just trying to free the girls, for real. Every milestone is a shared victory, and another door kicked in for us,” Amaarae said in a tweet expressing her excitement on the news.</p>
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<p>Listen to &#8216;Sad Girlz Luv Money&#8217; on aftownmusic.</p>
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		<title>12 Interesting Facts You Need To Know About Amaarae&#8217;s TAYDK Album</title>
		<link>https://news.aftown.com/12-interesting-facts-you-need-to-know-about-amaaraes-taydk-album/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Curated]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Amaarae&#8217;s been doing the absolute most all year. She&#8217;s had a really good music year and since the&#8230;]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amaarae&#8217;s been doing the absolute most all year.</p>
<p>She&#8217;s had a really good music year and since the release of her album, <em>The Angel You Don&#8217;t Know</em>, she&#8217;s done nothing but tick off back to back achievements. With the success of the song on charts..here&#8217;s even more reason for you to stream the project.</p>
<p><figure style="width: 3000px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img  loading="lazy"  decoding="async"  src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Emie3JOWMAAJYCS?format=jpg&amp;name=4096x4096"  alt="Amaarae The Angel You Don't Know album art"  width="3000"  height="3000" ><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><em>Album art for Amaarae&#8217;s TAYDK</em></figcaption></figure></p>
<p>Some months ago, Amaarae was on Twitter releasing some interesting stories and if you missed them, here you go again!</p>
<h2 id="3-am">3 AM</h2>
<p>There&#8217;s a Medikal verse on this afrobeats song on the TAYDK project. According to Amaarae, Medikal recorded a verse, then later had to record another verse because she wanted him to sing but in the end&#8230;his verse didn&#8217;t make it on the final cut.</p>
<p>Joey B also almost had a verse on 3 AM but again, according to Amaarae, he claims he never saw her Whatsapp message. By the time he wanted to drop his verse&#8230;it was too late.</p>
<p><strong><em>Listen here: 3 AM</em></strong></p>
<h2 id="fantasy"><strong>Fantasy </strong></h2>
<p>We almost didn&#8217;t get this beautiful song because Amaarae turned down the beat for the song about 4 times.</p>
<p>&#8220;The producer literally had to force it on me to the point where he got a songwriter to write and reference the song just so I could see the potential&#8221;</p>
<p><em><strong>Listen here: <a href="https://aftownmusic.com/track/2JI4DCQbLV2EFfS">Fantasy </a></strong></em></p>
<h2 id="dangerous"><strong>D*A*N*G*E*R*O*U*S</strong></h2>
<p>The intro to the whole project was recorded with a laptop mic, in the bathroom&#8230;naked. According to Amaarae, she recorded naked because she wanted to really communicate the sentiment of freedom and she used the laptop mic because she wanted the vocals to &#8220;sound as gritty as possible.&#8221;</p>
<p><em><strong>Listen here: <a href="https://aftownmusic.com/track/xTAohXzvU3CnPLt">DANGEROUS</a></strong></em></p>
<h2 id="trust-fund-baby"><strong>Trust Fund Baby</strong></h2>
<p>There&#8217;s another version of Trust Fund Baby with a Big Homie Flee intro and a second verse.</p>
<p><em><strong>Listen here: <a href="https://aftownmusic.com/track/M6drvSnkh2BzTF2">Trust Fund Baby</a></strong></em></p>
<p><figure style="width: 820px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img  loading="lazy"  decoding="async"  src="https://img.redbull.com/images/c_fill,g_auto,w_820,h_1230/q_auto,f_auto/redbullcom/2020/11/12/wes6ljx33jfnj9umys0k/amaarae"  alt="Amaarae image"  width="820"  height="1230" ><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><em>Amaarae image via Redbull.com// Photo Credit: Philipp Raheem</em></figcaption></figure></p>
<h2 id="dazed-and-abused-in-beverly-hills"><strong>Dazed And Abused in Beverly Hills</strong></h2>
<p>Apparently, the minute-long song has an even longer version (Thank God) that is 3 minutes long!</p>
<p><em><strong>Listen here: <a href="https://aftownmusic.com/track/gjPBZXJVhKYksRr">Dazed and Abused in Beverly Hills</a></strong></em></p>
<h2 id="leave-me-alone"><strong>Leave Me Alone</strong></h2>
<p>&#8216;Leave Me Alone&#8217; was a freestyle Amaarae had kept for a year. We only got it on the project because her team needed to replace a song they took off the project in the deliberation stage.</p>
<p><em><strong>Listen here: <a href="https://aftownmusic.com/track/StFczVBRkU7lXJT">Leave Me Alone</a></strong></em></p>
<h2 id="feel-a-way"><strong>Feel A Way</strong></h2>
<p>&#8216;Feel A Way&#8217; was recorded in just 30 minutes. Amaarae recorded the song with Moliy after they were done recording &#8216;Sad Girlz Luv Money&#8217;. Moliy asked if Amaarae had any more beats and she just happened to have the one for &#8216;Feel A Way&#8217; on her phone so&#8230;they recorded!</p>
<p><em><strong>Listen here: <a href="https://aftownmusic.com/track/DSy43uCoRYHdPz9">Feel A Way</a></strong></em></p>
<h2 id="celine"><strong>Céline</strong></h2>
<p>Amaarae apparently turned down the production for Celine twice before she recorded. According to her, she has no recollection of this and in her words, &#8220;I was drunk AF when I recorded Céline&#8221;.</p>
<p><em><strong>Listen here: <a href="https://aftownmusic.com/track/6oCwohnaHXOJJ4F">Celine</a></strong></em></p>
<p><figure style="width: 1500px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img data-recalc-dims="1"  loading="lazy"  decoding="async"  src="https://i0.wp.com/static1.squarespace.com/static/5935b646f7e0ab48e2394422/596debe26b8f5b88b9f0a0ab/603710c45df64a5c7fc4c2a7/1614222146302/Amaarae_DSTNGR2.jpg?resize=1200%2C800"  alt="Amaarae - SAD GIRLZ LUV MONEY feat. Moliy [Video] "  width="1200"  height="800" ><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><em>Amaarae image via Twitter//@Amaarae</em></figcaption></figure></p>
<h2 id="sad-gurlz-luv-money"><strong>Sad Gurlz Luv Money</strong></h2>
<p>The interesting bit about this song is, Amaarae found the beat for the song on an IG post (from @Yinkabernie) and offered to pay him to take the beat and for him to take down his post. We all know how that went because now, not only do we have Sad Gurlz Luv Money, we have a remix with Kali Uchis!</p>
<p><em><strong>Listen here: <a href="https://aftownmusic.com/track/INuWUxm85KzCMSO">Sad Gurlz Luv Money</a> </strong></em></p>
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<h2 id="sad-u-broke-my-heart"><strong>Sad U Broke My Heart </strong></h2>
<p>Apparently, the pitched-down vocal sample you hear as part of the production on the song is an unreleased Camidoh song. If this surprises you, you should know that Camidoh was once known as Fingers and was on Amaarae&#8217;s earlier release, &#8216;Sundays&#8217; off her <em>Passionfruit Summers</em> project.</p>
<p><strong><em>Listen here: <a href="https://aftownmusic.com/track/cQlHaV6qHASdU1p">Sad U Broke My Heart</a></em></strong></p>
<h2 id="hellz-angel"><strong>Hellz Angel </strong></h2>
<p>So when the song starts, the beat you hear before Amaarae&#8217;s vocals come in is a sample from a Japanese creator, Miho Moribayashi. Amaarae and her team had to look for her to clear the sample for about 6 months, surfing Japanese websites, sending emails that got no response until finally, Miho made a random post on IG and Amaarae swiftly DMed and got a response.</p>
<p>We almost didn&#8217;t get this song guys.</p>
<p><em><strong>Listen here: <a href="https://aftownmusic.com/track/2FpzUr8SUACHCMe">Hellz Angel</a></strong></em></p>
<h2 id="jumping-ship"><strong>Jumping Ship</strong></h2>
<p>Jumping Ship which features Kojey Radical and Santi was actually a 2-year-old Kojey Radical record that never got finished. After Amaarae put her vocals on the song, Kojey&#8217;s label wanted it back but he told them to let Amaarae keep it.</p>
<p>Santi who was featured on the song also recorded two different verses.</p>
<p><em><strong>Listen here:<a href="https://aftownmusic.com/track/lf3wbMLXYziaFVn"> Jumping Ship</a></strong></em></p>
<p><strong><em>Listen to the whole project here: <a href="https://aftownmusic.com/album/k6VlvDVL74SJOmt">TAYDK</a></em></strong></p>
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