{"id":97740,"date":"2022-01-26T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=97740"},"modified":"2022-01-26T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:54:51","slug":"dope-saint-jude-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/dope-saint-jude-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Dope Saint Jude makes a romantic return with “Home\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a break of almost two years, the South African bad grrrl returns in sensual style with a modern and lush video. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“Home” is Dope Saint Jude<\/a>\u2019s take on a romantic song. Addressing the intimacy and tenderness of a relationship, the rapper embraces her punk style in this new track about “finding a place of comfort in a lover’s embrace<\/em>.” The track, a follow-up to “Go High Go Low<\/a>” unveiled in 2020, is the first single from Higher Self<\/em>, her upcoming project in which she will meditate on the values that govern her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Higher Self is my most introspective EP to date<\/em>,” she explains. “I wrote it in the midst of a pandemic, when I had time to take a break and reflect on my life. I had moved to another country, found love and was making my way in the world. It became necessary for me to mark this moment. A friend once told me that ‘making music is like casting spells’, and I take that very seriously. I believe that the music I make can define my existence. So it’s important to me to create pure music that reflects who I am, where I want to be and where I’m going<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Saint Jude Pretorius aka Dope Saint Jude is originally from Cape Town. After studying political science and founding South Africa’s first drag-king collective in 2011, this feminist activist studied sound production and released her first solo project Reimagine <\/em>in 2016. Her second EP Resilient<\/a><\/em>, released in 2018 and recorded in London, had seen her tackle themes such as social, racial and sexual equality. “Some people make music lightly, like it’s a game<\/em>,” she had told us in an interview. “But for me it’s important, because where I come from, very few women have the opportunity to live the life I do, to be able to speak and meet as many people as I do, and have the impact that I have the opportunity to have<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to “Home” in our Songs of the Week playlist on Spotify<\/a> and Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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