00:01Global pop music rooted in Ghana.
00:05Ghanaian-American singer Amare released her latest album Black Star on Friday.
00:12While the work oscillates between R&B and pop,
00:15Amare's music is deeply rooted in her Ghanaian origins
00:18and celebrates them with references such as those to Highlife, the musical genre from Ghana.
00:24Maybe in the last two to three years, I go home once a year for two weeks.
00:31And I've noticed that now that I'm away from home, I crave it more.
00:36And I want to be connected to it more, you know.
00:39And it's not just through even physically being there, but through food, through seeing my family often,
00:44through going to places and being able to interact with other people from where I'm from or from the diaspora.
00:51So absolutely, I think that the longer and the farther away that you are, the more that you see the value in your roots.
01:00While the singer has known growing success in the past years, the impact her music has had has not quite sunken yet.
01:07You know, my father told me when I started making music, he was like, the one thing that you should know is important.
01:16Is that you your message and the way that you make people feel should always be on the highest frequency.
01:23And my dad didn't want me to make music.
01:26So I know that when he said that to me, he really meant it.
01:30And so for me, ultimately, I love the fact.
01:35I think more than anything that people always tell me how good, how sexy, how confident my music makes them feel.
01:42But I don't think that I've ever really sat with I don't know if it's a responsibility or just a gift, you know, or a little bit of both.
01:55But I don't think I've sat with the weight of that entirely, to be honest, because it's scary and daunting to think about.
02:01Black Star follows her much acclaimed second album, Fountain Baby, which she released in 2023.
02:09It is yet another step towards the artist's firm place in the Afropop scene around the world.
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