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Artist
WAYI
12+ albums
soulrnbNeo-Soulbelgian
about
Some people find music but music found WAYI. Growing up at church, the 24-year-old songstress spent most of her childhood with the gospel as her faithful companion. Through the years, this planted seed has been watered with Songs In A Minor and other wordy rivers irrigated by Alicia Keys. The first melodious bud appeared at 11 when WAYI had to sing in the school choir. Not yet aware of her gift, it was then her classmates and family’s encouraging reactions that gave birth to the first flowers of a garden that would keep on giving. After years of studying and covering her favorite acts, she eventually became inspired to take up her pen. What started as innocent stories and novels slowly flourished into a bouquet of lyrics about the purest and most complex feeling: Love. With a subtle delicateness and a refreshing honesty, WAYI explores every petal and thorn of this universal theme, narrating her own experiences perfumed with movie scenes and situations encountered by friends and a family that she cherishes and carries with her each step of her artistic blossoming. Hence her choice of having a part of her last name as her pseudonym… Her effortless elegance and sensual voice have already enchanted the national radio MNM for which she performed several times and the Belgian rappers K1D and TheColorGrey, who respectively featured her on the tracks Delorean Dreams and Clear Blue Skies in 2017. These dreamy harmonies and strong sense of identity say it all: WAYI is a natural - wat
