Refugee -- The Real Sheba (Demo)

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THE REAL SHEBA
Bustling through the streets of Manhattan, seeping through the sidewalks of Brooklyn, rattling through the trains of New York's metropolis arrives something born out of majestic Africa and raised on the chic that runs through the city's concrete jungle. She straddles a zone where Basquiat’s crown reigned supreme, when expressionism was fresh, and does it with a global consciousness that dials up a diversity of culture: from Rastafari philosophy, and pop heartbeats to universally loved african riddims, tribal drums and club thumping bass. Here comes Sheba, delivering something aggressive, timely and exquisitely polished.

Her upcoming debut Album is a survey of not just her expansive emotional landscape but cultural wisdom gleaned from a globally nomadic life; while musically she travels vast global scope, she still somehow manages to maintain an endearing vulnerability. Hear it on the airtight, precocious beat of ‘The Rapture’, the character and personality that projects itself from the cheeky tune ‘Naked Girls Mud Wrestling’ to the broken-hearted ire of the wrenching lament, Kick Rocks; you want to get to know this intriguing Queen. Standing apart from the model of the urban pop diva, it is clear, she has certain depth. Sheba's sound is clever with streaks of humor, grit, glamour, unmissable smartness and coups de grace laced through every song. Whilst it might appear that this project is built for colossal venues or chart climbing radio-plays, it actually darts from the heart of New York the only way it knows fit. To quote her song "Hard Like My City", the recently Los Angeles based Sheba, goes hard, like the city she still represents. From the bottom up. This is the work of a self-funded singer, writer and producer whose music is filtered only by her own thoughts and passionate determination to make music; no money, no label. The sonics Sheba has collected over the years by pounding the NYC pavements and traveling the world over like an urban gypsy nomad are distinct on cuts like ‘Get Yo Story Str8’ and ‘Queen Of Hearts’. Her exceptional vocal work and astute lyricism could sound at home everywhere; from the subway stops around the city that built her, to booming speakers streaming across the world stage. As she takes this regal, refined and irresistible project up the ladder that she knows all-too-well, Sheba is all at once from around the way and around the world; clearly ready to take a seat, at the top.

-Duncan Harrison @Shufsounds

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