Queens-based soul singer duendita has introduced a brand new EP. The follow-up to 2018’s Direct Line to My Creator is titled The Thoughts Is a Miracle and can arrive September 27. Duendita is sharing a preview of that EP with the brand new tune “Born With Energy,” which they created with frequent collaborator Noah Becker and pianist Paul Wilson. Take a look at its accompanying video, by Ameer Kazmi, beneath.
The thought for “Born With Energy” got here to duendita whereas touring Europe, they usually fleshed it out with Becker whereas again on the street in the USA. “Working in headphones in the lounge of our Airbnb whereas our mates watched Squid Recreation, we made ‘Born With Energy,’” the artist defined. “We carried out it onstage for the primary time days later. Stay efficiency is on the middle of our artistic course of, and we let these early performances of the tune inform this closing model. Once we received again to New York, pianist Paul Wilson blessed the monitor, which was endlessly enjoyable for me to edit. The whole course of from voice be aware to closing export was extraordinarily collaborative, and that’s what makes this tune so particular.”
Earlier this yr, duendita unveiled their new single “Planetary”—their first in two years—alongside a Sandy Ismail–directed music video. That tune and the Pleasure Guidry collaboration “Really feel” be a part of “Born With Energy” on the brand new EP.
Again in 2021, duendita dropped two standalone singles: “Open Eyes” and “Bio.” Extra not too long ago, Jamila Woods invited duendita to hitch her on her album Water Made Us the place they collaborated on the standout tune “Tiny Backyard.” Duendita additionally joined Wiki on his full-length Half God.
Revisit the 2019 Rising interview “Meet duendita, a Religious Soul Singer Who Worships on the Altar of Self-Love.”
