An invigorating marriage of hip-hop and Afrobeat, D.Matthews’ inspiring ‘Be Anyone’ is a hovering and spirited anthem brimming with confidence, inside power and keenness.
Championing his personal model of motivational and energetic calm Afrobeat and Afropop pushed by the beats of Africa, Australian-based Nigerian-born singer-songwriter D.Matthews has been completely embossing his identify within the business over the previous few years.
With a string of releases to his identify and numerous nightclub performances and festivals, there’s little doubt that this artist has the drive, to not point out the expertise, to seize individuals’s consideration. With a penchant for creating modern and progressive afropop all through each certainly one of his songs, D.Matthews’ music is a real reflection of the foundational flavours of the late nice Fela Anikulapo Kuti, showcasing his thought-about character and plain songwriting.
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Inspiring, upbeat and unapologetically body-moving, D.Matthews’ latest single ‘Be Anyone’ finds the up-and-coming Afrofusion artist and producer spellbinding in a tune filled with coronary heart, soul, cool braveness, and unrelenting drive.
Launched independently on November 4 and that includes a great deal of feel-good power, Afrobeats/Afropop, stylistic jazzy rhythms, and body-moving melodies, ‘Be Anyone’ is a brightly-lit and poetically piercing monitor, serving as an awakening to stay your finest life and to maintain pushing onwards to get to the place you need to go or to be who you need to be: it’s an energizing reminder that the struggle is most price it within the occasions which might be essentially the most troublesome.
“It’s a motivational monitor,” D.Matthews explains. “For whoever needs to be any person in life, you need to press ahead, apply strain and tough issues out a bit earlier than you get to the success/successful stage.
“Not most need to undergo this at most occasions, however clearly, if it was straightforward, everybody would do it. Everybody runs a thousand miles, it comes all the way down to how effectively you’ll be able to utilise these miles to get/attain what you need on your future.”
Spanning simply over three fully infectious minutes, ‘Be Anyone’ is stuffed with coronary heart and rhythmic ardour, taking cues from the likes of Afrobeat singer Burna Boy and Nigerian vocalist/producer Davido, who blends conventional African components with international mainstream pop. Crammed with vibrant positivity and limitless power, the only gives a extra direct emotional impression than a few of his earlier work.
Grounded and goal-oriented, a robust, dazzling beat varieties the backdrop, bolstered with vibrant horns, African percussion and stimulating lyrics, providing a seductive rhythm that captures you proper from the beginning.
Intimate and universally accessible, the charged anthem reveals one more aspect to D.Matthews’s burgeoning, multifaceted artistry, teaming up with UK-born, Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) primarily based Nigerian artist, producer, content material creator and educator Mazbou Q to additional carry the monitor to life along with his intoxicating movement and explicit model of hiphop, stemming from his background in classical, heavy metallic and West African Highlife.
Having solidified himself as each a musical powerhouse and efficient communicator, Mazbou Q continues to problem and encourage his audiences via the varied channels of his creativity, making a collaboration excessive on D.Matthews’ bucket record.
Of the tracks creation D.Matthews explains, “It’s been in my books to work with Mazbou Q in a min. So needed to make the legendary name by way of message out to one of many legendary artists in New Zealand mid 2021 for him to get ready for a collaborative work early 2022. It had been a very long time coming. I’m glad it occurred.”
Additional drawing influences from fellow Nigerian singer-songwriter WizKid, and various neo-soul songstresses Kehlani and Tinashe, D.Matthews’ work comes bolstered with expertise, enlisting Aericsn on manufacturing and New Zealand’s Edyonthebeat to combine and grasp the monitor, including one other layer to the element and high quality that he has maintained for many of his releases.
Whereas his distinctive model of energic calm Afrobeat/Afropop already making for a hear filled with thrills and delights, what actually D.Matthews’ artwork aside is his private songwriting. He tells intimate, significant tales of discovery in his songs – and he injects deep ardour into each line.
We first noticed this in his 2020 single and video clip ‘Dawn’, which seeked to embrace the New Zealand’s (Aotearoa) serenity, peacefulness and beautiful panorama, exploring the fantastic thing about the nation and its tradition.
Staying true to his musical id and artistry, D.Matthews captivates individuals’s thoughts and soul once more with the video clip which can quickly arrive alongside ‘Be Anyone’.
Captured in Ghana, the accompanying video is a robust and galvanizing depiction of the monitor’s core theme, that includes bustling scenes of road hawking and artwork galleries, alongside scenes of D.Matthews and Mazbou Q within the studio writing lyrics and recording, and celebrating achievements in a limo.
“Mainly, [the clip shows] the entire strategy of what it actually takes to be nice in life.”
Arriving on the again of his charming new afrobeat summer time single ‘No Frontin’’ again in July and forward his extremely anticipated sophomore EP that will probably be arriving early subsequent yr, ‘Be Anyone’ sees D.Matthews emerge as a voice of ardour and objective. His efficiency is free and filled with ardour as he continues to unfold the gospel of afrobeat music down underneath, at all times promising to energise and enchant, regardless of who you might be or the place you might be.
If his current releases is something to go by, 2023 is shaping as much as be a promising yr for D.Matthews, particularly with a debut tour firmly in his sights.
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