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Next stop: Love Station<\/em>. Our train is coming to a halt in Lagos, Nigeria, under the dim, blue LED lights of Ria Sean\u2019s improvised home studio. Although this isn’t where all of her magic happens, it is quite possibly the strategic point of a newer, bolder, sexier, and female-led afro-fusion wave taking over the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tail of her silver durag cascading over a trendy bikini-top, pop-rock-like detachable sleeves combo, and a septum piercing reflecting her laptop\u2019s glow, Gloria Asene Enebi looks like your favorite Gen Z TikTok fashionista. But being fashionable is only a plus, and the app is just one of the many tools Ria Sean uses to put her sound forward. Moreover, one thing you should know about her is not to be fooled by her petite, young, stylish appearance or bubbly demeanor. Looking attentively at her cheeky smile, you can catch the self-assurance oozing out of her character. Ria means business, and by listening to her music, you discover a multitalented powerhouse with a sharp pen and an angelic voice, topped with a taste for the provocative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ria used to lead the church choir, but she\u2019s grown now. And she writes about grown-up stuff. In 2021, the Aristokrat Records signee released Fluid, an impressively good EP demonstrating her unique, boundary-pushing universe. Titles like the yearning \u201cMinor Notes<\/a>\u201d and the daring \u201cStamina<\/a>\u201d shamelessly ventured through less explored, more explicit paths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The follow-up, her latest EP titled Love Station<\/a><\/em>, is now taking a romantic turn, exploring codependence, heartbreaks, and doubt, in six sonic afro-RnB tracks trying to one-up her previous work. \u201cThese past 12 months have been a lot of growing and evolving, and just being a better version of myself, of who Ria Sean is. The brand and even the music, my writing, everything has improved so much. And the higher level you go, the more hard work you have to put in […] I needed to pay attention to every word, every lyric, what kind of ambiance, what kind of feel I wanted.<\/em>\u201d The feel in question is intimate and personal, and the project is reaching a higher potential. This new opus was the perfect opportunity to expand, reach out, find new landscapes and make her sound travel toward new horizons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While in France for the release of Fluid, she found in this environment and newly met producers Bgrz (for her first single \u201cTha\u00ef Food<\/a>\u201d) and Seysey (“Needy<\/a>“) a new inspiration when direly needed. \u201cI was in a studio in Paris and that was my first time eating Thai food. Before that, I think I was having a creative block. I didn’t know what to sing about. I didn’t know what I wanted to do because I was working everyday, recording everyday. And it just inspired me immediately. I created a whole story around the name and the way the food made me feel.<\/em>” France even sparked an expected collaboration between Ria and the melancholic tornado Yseult on their declaration of love called \u201cTe Amo<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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