.Sampa_The_Great's terrific second album is out today. We caught up with her where she described how it all came together
encountered an “intense culture shock” — one that nearly stopped a journey of self-exploration and expression of her African culture.
Growing up in an artistic family, the Zambian-born, Botswana-raised Sampa Tembo started taking piano and singing lessons around age nine. During this time, she started journaling and poetry, sparking an affinity for songwriting. The young Sampa found the “catharsis” of “being heard” as the middle of five children, and, later, writing provided her with the ability “to document [her] existence.”over Zoom, brushing her brassy red side bang away from her eye with a grin. Despite it being nearly 8 p.
Her aplomb on wax takes the form of an alter-ego, Eve, who allows her to “be the woman that [she’s] always wanted to be,” remaining steadfast in a field she was apprehensive to join as an African woman. “A woman who raps is not even in the conversation when it comes to what people expect from African women,” she notes.
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