Do you recognize this: listening to the radio in your car on any random day and an Irie song coming through the radio? I have that multiple times and when I arrive at my destination, I forget to search online for the song. The same happened with this artist, who also happened to be born in Suriname.
It's really a shame because she's very talented and I feel bad that I hadn't heard of her before. I've previously listened to one of her songs while driving, but forgot to search her music and today a news article mentioned her newly released song and I immediately scoured the internet looking for her songs and her social presence.
She is born (1991) and raised in Suriname as Samora Souprayen (better known as Samora) and she moved to the Netherlands in 2006. After reading some of the articles mentioning her and listening to some of her songs, I call her a true artist as she writes her own lyrics and because of her unique versatile voice reminiscent of dancehall, R&B and reggae queens I grew up listening to.
The song promoted in the article is Please Be Mine, which was in collaboration with Turbulence. According to Samora, Turbulence had a huge part in the conception of this song and it's about the longing to be together in the early stages of a relationship.
Here's the song Free up in which she calls us to action to free ourselves from mental slavery and make the most of our blessed days. This song really has Caribbean vibes.
And then I enjoyed this collaboration between herself and Lutan Fyah in the song What You Came For, that made me sway to the beats. The videoclip was also a joy to watch, seeing Samoras football skills and interesting fact is that they shot their scenes in different continents: Samora in Europe and Lutan being in the Caribbean.
And to close off for today - yes she has more songs, but I don't want her work to get saturated due to being crowded - her uplifting song Jah Inna Mi Life about positivity and being thankful for having the most High in her life. Whatever happens - the good, the ugly and the bad - having Jah in her life is what gets her through anything.
If you appreciate Samoras music, want to collaborate and/or link up with her or want to attend her performances, here's where you can follow her:
- Link to her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCicTLOTxqhmi1O39hdZcLNg/videos
- Her Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/samoramusic/?utm_medium=copy_link
- Her Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/samora.souprayen
- Her website: https://www.samoramusic.com/
