The South African singer’s debut album builds on the promise of her singles with sumptuous and tactile R&B touched by amapiano and gqom.
Tyla has never cared for genre purity. When the Johannesburg-based artist released her 2019 debut single “Getting Late,” she was already finding ways to shake up amapiano, transforming the South African house subgenre into pop music she could call her own. Her follow-up, “Overdue,” went even bigger, aiming for stadium-ready qgom—her gentle vocals were triumphant,…
