{"id":41848,"date":"2019-04-05T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T09:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/koffee-covers-burna-boys-ye\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:35:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:35:50","slug":"koffee-covers-burna-boys-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/koffee-covers-burna-boys-ye\/","title":{"rendered":"Koffee covers Burna Boy&#8217;s &#8216;Ye&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23471 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Koffee-Ye-Burna-Boy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Koffee-Ye-Burna-Boy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Koffee-Ye-Burna-Boy-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Koffee-Ye-Burna-Boy-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Koffee-Ye-Burna-Boy-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Koffee-Ye-Burna-Boy-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Jamaican rising artist delivered a\u00a0meaningful interpretation of the Nigerian hymn, recorded on BBC&#8217;s 1xtra Live Lounge show.<\/h4>\n<p>Young singer\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/koffee\/\">Koffee<\/a>\u00a0is skyrocketting into global recognition, leading a blossoming new Jamaican Reggae Dancehall scene. Last week, during her first London performance, she covered<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/burna-boy\/\">Burna Boy<\/a>&#8216;s hit &#8220;Ye&#8221; in an brilliant way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Strolling through the verses with ease and verve, she delivers the Pidgin and Yoruba lyrics and adds her singular vocal touch. The performance was so striking that Burna Boy shared it on Instagram, alluding to a possible future collaboration.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ld79_2whFE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>While waiting for this potential transcontinental collaboration, you can watch her cover recorded during her performance at BBC&#8217;s 1xtra Live Lounge show.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to\u00a0<em>Rapture,<\/em>\u00a0Koffee&#8217;s first EP\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/smarturl.it\/KoffeeRapture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Find Koffee among other influencial female artists in our\u00a0Women Power\u00a0playlist on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/0QbBmuahAno6wtpZVHhPLT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deezer.com\/playlist\/2888457266?app_id=105611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also watch below the rest of Koffee&#8217;s BBC performance, also featuring a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/bob-marley\/\">Bob Marley<\/a><\/span>\u00a0cover.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JOlz416Vfk0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o2SYiqdbzZI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wdziiPyG9Ao\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Read Next:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/30-best-albums-first-quarter-2019\/\">The 30 best albums of the last three months<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaican rising artist delivered a\u00a0meaningful interpretation of the Nigerian hymn, recorded on BBC&#8217;s 1xtra Live Lounge show. Young singer\u00a0Koffee\u00a0is skyrocketting into global recognition, leading a blossoming new Jamaican Reggae Dancehall scene. Last week, during her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4568,5810],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41848"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41848"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}