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Momodou
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 Posted - 15 May 2015 : 08:16:19
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Meet Seinabo Sey, Sweden's Bluesy New Pop Hope
In this week's GEN F, a singer goes from shy girl to fly girl.
By Michael Cragg
Apr/May 2015
Like most kids born in the '90s, 24-year-old Seinabo Sey grew up glued to MTV. "I was obsessed with Cribs, like I wanted my room to look like Beyoncé's," she says over the phone from her Stockholm apartment. "I grew up in a town with no black people at all, so Destiny's Child and Alicia Keys became my idols." Anchored by her husky, lived-in vocal, Sey's bluesy reworking of neo-soul may bear little resemblance to high-gloss R&B; but recent singles like the lightly vocoded hymnal "You" tap the same universal emotions—of love, loss, and redemption—that permeate all great pop music. "As soon as I get too personal and introverted in my songs, I worry about whether people can relate to it," she says.
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