After a remarkable COLORS performance<\/a> in 2021, M\u00e9lissa Laveaux<\/a> is back with “Papessa”, a new track from her upcoming project. “The Papess, the most mysterious arcana of the tarot, hides a secret<\/em>,” she explains in a press release. “A symbol of prophecy, intuition and wisdom, I see it as a warrior, a female warrior in strategic meditation. A rewriting of an oppressive design by attempting something both impossible and irresistible. The papess falls, from a great height, but she rises again because she answers to no one<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPapessa\u201d is the first single from Mama Forgot Her Name Was Miracle<\/em>, the singer’s fourth studio album. Following the excellent Radyo Siw\u00e8l<\/a><\/em> released in 2018, the record promises to be “spiritual, poetic and highly emancipatory<\/em>“, with a desire to rewrite our models and mythologies “by summoning powerful voices from beyond time, from Audre Lorde to the goddess Lilith<\/em> […] because to change the legends is to change the present<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n M\u00e9lissa Laveaux, of Haitian origin, was born in Montreal and grew up in Ottawa where she found an interest for hip-hop, electronic music and Brazilian songs. “[My parents] had left the island because, when they were students, friends of theirs who were activists were killed<\/em>“, she told us in a 2018 interview<\/a>. “My father left first, and then he raised money to sponsor my mother’s trip to join him in Canada<\/em>\u201d. Her three albums released via No Format!<\/a> saw her reconnect with her Haitian heritage and blend it with rock and soul influences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mama Forgot Her Name Was Miracle<\/em> by M\u00e9lissa Laveaux, out on March 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Listen to “Papessa” in our Songs of the Week playlist on Spotify<\/a> and Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n