"Ghana is in the building. Y'all don't even know,"
"I remember walking offstage and just feeling like, man, there was so much pressure all day. There were so many things that went wrong behind the scenes and it was really difficult to get to the performance,"
"But after I got off, I was like, 'Wow, this is something I've always wanted my whole life,'"
"And to be the first flag bearer for my country was so fire."
Amaarae debuted at Coachella as the first Ghanaian solo female act, performing in militant attire, towering boots and a bust-down middle part wig which she shaved onstage while standing atop the Ghanaian flag. She performed hits including "Sad Girlz Luv Money," previewed new music, and played tracks by fellow Ghanaian artists. Born in the Bronx and raised between the United States and Ghana, Amaarae released her third album, Black Star, a genre-bending dance record rich with Ghanaian imagery and collaborations such as Bree Runway. She filmed a music video at Accra's Independence Square, toured with Sabrina Carpenter, and experienced intense backstage pressure yet deep fulfillment as a cultural flag bearer.
Read at Los Angeles Times
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]