Jamaican pop star Shenseea caught up with Billboard‘s Tetris Kelly to replicate on her journey from aspiring artist to Coachella stage commander.
Throughout her set, Shenseea introduced out “Gamers” rapper Coi Leray to carry out a remix of the hit single alongside Dominican phenom, Tokischa. “Final 12 months I got here as a patron and now this 12 months I’m performing,” Shenseea says. “I didn’t see it coming.”
The singer simply launched her newest single, “Curious,” which she hoped would serve to bridge the area between dancehall’s roots and its future. “I wished to deliver again a nostalgic feeling with the old fashioned Dancehall and blend it with fashionable sound,” she explains. “Lots of people who know concerning the tradition is like ‘Yo, we haven’t heard this sound in a very long time,’ and that’s precisely what we had been aiming for.”
The observe’s steamy music video exhibits the 26-year-old in various attention-grabbing appears, as she drips in honey and grooves alongside a workforce of dancers. The YouTube video has already garnered 3.5 million views since its April 13 premiere.
Shenseea additionally launched a powerful freestyle to Akon’s “Locked Up” earlier this month, shouting out her 7-year-old son with the memorable line, “Laborious fi maintain my tongue, sorry, I’m only a mother/ Inform di child mom mi will go ah jail fi mi son.”
“When it comes all the way down to my child I don’t play,” she says. In 2022, Shenseea’s son walked the BBMA crimson carpet alongside mother, draped in a dapper gold and black go well with and aviator sun shades. The singer additionally teased new music alongside main options, including to her lengthy checklist of co-signers together with Megan Thee Stallion, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani and 21 Savage. “I imagine in myself however seeing different folks imagine in me who’re forward of the sport, It feels superb.”
“I’ve been ready on this second for such a very long time,” she says of her rise. “I simply gotta give God thanks and attempt to relish the second as a result of it’s going by fairly quick.”
