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Matt Everitt is joined by multidisciplinary artist Alewya to share pivotal musical moments in her life, including her New York murals, and her love for Moses Boyd and Little Simz.

Matt Everitt presents in-depth, exclusive and revealing interviews with major artists revealing the pivotal moments and songs that shaped their lives and their careers.

Alewya is only one album into her career – her debut Zero landed earlier this year – but it follows a string of singles and EPs that stretch back over six years and encompass club rhythms, the energy and lawlessness of punk and her African and Arab roots.

We cover her circuitous route into music, her earliest musical loves, and the influence of her family. There’s her love for Wyclef and Mary J Blige, and how the cultural eclecticism of growing up in West London, then later New York, helped form her artistic identity – and how a career modelling led her to become a visual artist, then animator, then musician.

A ĢƵ Audio North production for ĢƵ Radio 6 Music.

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Music Played

  • Alewya

    Selah

    • Because London.
  • Whitney Houston

    My Love Is Your Love

    • Arista.
  • Mulatu Astatke

    Yèkèrmo Sèw (A Man of Experience and Wisdom)

    • Late Night Tales.
  • Animal Collective

    Applesauce

    • Domino.
  • MJ Cole

    Crazy Love

    • Talkin' Loud.
  • Ashanti

    Foolish

    • Murder.
  • E.R.

    In My Sleep

    • Ethiopian Records.
  • Wyclef Jean

    911 (Radio Edit) (feat. Mary J. Blige)

    • Columbia.
  • Ejigayehu “Gigi” Shibabaw

    Guramayle

    • Palm Pictures.
  • Deerhunter

    Revival

    • 4AD.
  • Frank Ocean

    Nikes

    • Boys Don't Cry.
  • Alewya

    Ethiopia

    • Because London.
  • Alewya

    Sweating

    • London Records LTD.
  • Alewya & Moses Boyd

    The Code

    • LONDON MUSIC STREAM LTD..
  • Little Simz & Alewya

    where's my lighter

    • AGE 101.
  • Alewya

    Zero

    • LDN Records.

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