Originally from DR Congo and brought up in Buenos Aires, the singer\u2019s upbringing involved many different musical influences, not least her uncle, Congolese rumba giant Franco Luambo Makiadi. \u201cIn Argentina, I listened to a wide range of styles from African-American artists to Dominican stars like Juan Luis Guerra, the Congolese greats like my uncle and Papa Wemba and various artists from Argentina including Mercedes Sosa\u201d<\/em>, she says. Exotic Other<\/em>, her 2018 joint project with Animanz, and her accomplishments alongside Afro-Peruvian band Malambo, London Afrobeat Collective and Cuban group Wara were all results of her multicultural past, and her dynamic present in cosmopolitan London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Her debut album Mabanzo<\/em>, to be released via Strut Records<\/a>, will once again blend the singer\u2019s varied musical influences, alternating between 80s boogie, Afro-Cuban music, romantic ballads and rumba influences. \u201cI have always written songs and poems since I was young<\/em>,\u201d reflects Euka. \u201cI have tried to bring all of the musical heritage that I have experienced into my album<\/em>.\u201d The different songs will see her address personal struggle, calls for freedom and championing love over materialism, diving deep in her \u201cthoughts\u201d (the translation of the album\u2019s title). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mabanzo<\/em><\/a> <\/em>by Juanita Euka, out on March 25 via Strut Records.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Listen to \u201cNalingi Mobali Te\u201d in our Songs of the Week playlist on Spotify<\/a> and Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The singer, who has lived in Argentina and the UK, has announced a new album in true Congolese style with \u201cNalingi Mobali Te\u201d, strongly inspired by DRC \u201csapeurs\u201d. Juanita Euka\u2019s new song, blending Congolese guitar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":96924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[41117,30275],"location":[7934],"yst_prominent_words":[8576,21577,10454,8995,11341,8414,8394,31379,8402,8435,10321,30363,8543,23994,23991,8449],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96919"}],"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=96919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96919"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=96919"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=96919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/juanita-euka-mabanzo-1010x1010.jpg\")
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