VERY INTERESTING: LIBIANCA!

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Libianca Is the Afro Soul Siren Who Can Do Everything!

She may be a new signee to RCA and UK producer Jae5’s 5K Records, but this 22-year-old veteran of The Voice has a world of experience behind her viral single ‘People’

LIBIANCA MAY HAVE fooled some of us into fandom. Her incredible talent as a pristine vocalist is the real thing, though. Born Libianca Kenzonkinboum Fonji, her exceptional control over her instrument was developed over more than ten years of training, seven years as a professional musician, and a season on The Voice, where, in 2021, she was coached by Blake Shelton (who she chose over Ariana Grande, John Legend, and Kelly Clarkson). 

However, when the 22-year-old sang her latest single, “People,” into a suspended mic hung over a honey-brown backdrop, across the internet, it looked like she was flexing her muscle in a Colors video, reminiscent the Oxlade performance that helped make his song “Ku Lo Sa” a worldwide hit. It circulated on Twitter without the parody disclaimer that she included on Instagram and TikTok. “£100 to the first person that can give me the full version of this  ,” someone wrote while sharing the video. “Why do afro beat Colors [sic] sessions bang so much.”

 The footprint of that December tweet can’t be compared to her impact across platforms like Spotify and Apple Music, though: “People” has amassed over 50 million streams since then. She dropped an official video for the song this week.

“People” is a unique take on the blend of R&B and Afrobeats that artists like Tiwa Savage, Tems, and Ayra Starr have popularized in the mainstream. Libianca takes the casual earnestness of the genre and runs with it. She tells Rolling Stone that she wrote the song about feeling invisible in the middle of a gathering, after dipping off to her home studio as her mental health was deteriorating.

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