{"id":42189,"date":"2018-10-25T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/afro-post-punk-singer-farai-announced-debut-album-on-big-dada\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:37:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:37:02","slug":"afro-post-punk-singer-farai-announced-debut-album-on-big-dada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/afro-post-punk-singer-farai-announced-debut-album-on-big-dada\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro-post-punk singer Farai announced debut album on Big Dada"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17577 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Farai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Farai.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Farai-759x427.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Farai-1010x568.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Farai-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Farai-465x262.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Farai-375x211.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Zimbabwean artist will release\u00a0<em>Rebirth\u00a0<\/em>on November 30th.<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farai\u2019s debut album (a collaborative project between London based vocalist Farai and artist, musician &amp; producer TONE) documents a process of recovery. For the eponymous vocalist of the project, Farai, music has always been personal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in Zimbabwe and raised in London, her lyrics are coloured by the different cities she\u2019s lived in, and how that series of different homes has shaped her perspective. \u2018Rebirth\u2019 weaves together South East London landmarks, the bare-bones ethos of post-punk, and the experience of being part of the African diaspora. The record is the biggest stepping stone yet in a journey which Farai started in 2012. She hit a period of feeling burnt out, and started attending weekly music therapy classes, where she started writing poetry and music for the first time. It charted a new direction, one that\u2019s brought her to the exciting point where she now stands. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch first double-single below, &#8220;This Is England\/Punk Champagne&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Farai - This Is England (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5i6VJyH-9N4?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Farai - Punk Champagne (feat. TONE)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qTXwtZEgDaY?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/nazar-enclave-hyperdub\/\">Discover Angolan producer Nazar\u2019s rough kuduro echoing the civil war<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean artist will release\u00a0Rebirth\u00a0on November 30th. Farai\u2019s debut album (a collaborative project between London based vocalist Farai and artist, musician &amp; producer TONE) documents a process of recovery. For the eponymous vocalist of the project, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42189"}],"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=42189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42189"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42189"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}