Jamaican artist SHENYENG's heart lies in dancehall, but that doesn’t mean she can’t step outside the limits of the genre.
. The Jamaican artist’s lyrics are rife with sexual liberation, and her throaty voice is filled with brash confidence. Her mind and body are her own, and she inspires listeners to reclaim their agency too. She’s continuing the legacy of her dancehall foremothers like Lady Saw, Sister Nancy and Patra. Her debut album,, released in March, has themes of female empowerment and sexual freedom woven throughout.
Shenseea has become a force in dancehall by mixing her family’s influence with what she learned from watching her idols, Nicki Minaj and—like the importance of writing her own lyrics and living life with “boss energy.” Between collabs with Kanye West, Christina Aguilera and dancehall royalty Vybz Kartel and ubiquitous hits that get played by DJs worldwide, Shenseea has cemented her status as an international representative of the genre.
To outsiders, it may seem like Shenseea sold out to cross over, but she just levelled up to where she’d always planned to be. After her mother passed away in June 2020, something dormant within the singer sprung to the surface again. She had been so absorbed in her constant output that she lost sight of her bigger plan—until she was forced to slow down. “I’d always been in a fast lane, just working 24-7, dropping a new song every two months,” she says. “When my mom died, that woke me up.
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