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Amaarae review – from punk swagger to silky singing, there’s nothing this pop star can’t do
The Ghanaian-American singer brings the house down with an intoxicatingly lustful charge across a dizzying array of genres
Ghanaian-American singer Amaarae’s breakthrough Afropop track Sad Girlz Luv Money became a viral sensation in 2021, thanks to an audacious combination of sweet and innocent feathery vocals with snotty, money-grubbing, lustful lyrics. She arrives in a red latex number as a two-piece live band of an electric guitarist and drummer opens with instrumental track All My Love and move into Angels in Tibet, Amaarae rapping smoothly through the pacy tempo. The span of influences for Fountain Baby is honoured on stage: two red kanji symbols flash in the background as she performs Wasted Eyes, a track which interpolates a sample of the Japanese folk song Battaki by Umeko Ando.
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