Singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist keiyaA synthesizes her jazz training, R&B sensibilities, and hip-hop upbringing to create new soul sounds inundated with her powerful, sultry voice and dense lyricism.
In anticipation to her show at Le Guess Who? 2025, curated by Lonnie Holley, keiyaA now releases her new album hooke's law. After her 2020 debut Forever, Ya Girl, the artist returns reinvented, with an album about the journey of self love, from an angle that isn’t all affirmations and capitalistic self-care.
In keiyaA's own words: "it’s not a linear story with a moral at the end. It's more of a cycle, a spiral - it's Hooke’s law. With this work i aim to interrogate and embrace anger and conflict, disappointment and dissatisfaction, about not being docile and about rejecting mammyism and traditional expectations of fat black brown and dark skinned women in our communities. i speak about desire + longing, about examining maladaptive tendencies, conflict avoidance - the eternal relationship with the self."
keiyaA performs at Le Guess Who? 2025 on Friday 7 November. Also performing at the festival are a.o. Alpha Maid, Semiratruth, Lido Pimienta, and more.
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