1/9/2024 0 Comments Tembo gold![]() Sampa the Great issued a second mixtape, Birds and the Bee9 (10 November 2017), which "crosses hip-hop, soul, jazz, gospel and reggae", via the Big Dada label. The second and third singles from the EP, "The Plug" and "Paved with Gold", also featuring Estelle, were released on 11 May. On the EP the rapper collaborated with producer, Rahki. In an interview she described it as, "a snapshot of a time of uncertainty and doubt, and the realisation that those aspects are very normal". Her debut extended play, HERoes Act 2 was the issued on 12 May. On 28 April 2017 Sampa the Great released a single, "Everybody's Hero" featuring British singer Estelle. 2017–2018: HERoes Act 2 to Birds and the Bee9 On 27 October a related music video, "HERoes (The Response)", was released. On 6 October she issued a music video, "HERoes (The Call)". Another two standalone singles followed, "24" and "Blessings", released together on 25 May. The rapper featured on the track "Second Heartbeat" alongside Okenyo, for Urthboy's fifth studio album, The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat (March 2016). Two days later another standalone single, "Blue Boss", was issued. On 19 January 2016 Sampa the Great released a standalone single, "Black Dignity". The track was co-written by Tembo with D Rodrguez-Lovibond. On 18 December a mixtape track, "F E M A L E", was released as a single. Sampa the Great's vocals were recorded in two takes. They had met at a jazz and hip-hop freestyle at a club, Foundry, in Sydney. It was produced by Sydney-based Dave Rodriguez ( p.k.a. The artist described it as "a search for creativity, laughter, purpose and rhythms", and credits her African youth for inspiring the "political consciousness" on the record. The rapper's debut mixtape, The Great Mixtape, was released as a free download on 16 October 2015, and later on CD and vinyl by Melbourne label Wondercore Island. Sampa the Great was featured on the second single, "Beauty" (September 2015), by future soul singer-songwriter Wallace ( a.k.a. Sampa the Great (right) performing at Haldern Pop, Germany in August 2018. The artist acknowledges her family and communities in both Botswana and Zambia as the foundation of her success. Tembo moved to Sydney in 2013 and was based there until 2018, she completed a Bachelor degree in audio engineering at SAE Institute in 2015. While in San Francisco she recorded two tracks. In the early 2010s she studied music for visual media at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, for two years and Los Angeles for a year. She received both piano and singing lessons and started writing poems/lyrics from the age of nine. Her mother, a dancer, Theresa is from the Bemba people while her father, an insurance broker and some-time DJ, is from the Tumbuka. ![]() Sampa Tembo was born in 1993 in Zambia and was raised there and in Botswana, as the middle of five children. 2.2 2017–2018: HERoes Act 2 to Birds and the Bee9.
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