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Khalid Shares How a Chance Encounter in South Africa Inspired New Album ‘Sincere’

Khalid is gearing up to release his newest album, Sincere, and to celebrate, the star sat down with Billboard to discuss how the project came to be.

Khalid is gearing up to release his newest album, Sincere, on August 2 — marking his first full-length album since 2019’s Free Spirit — and to celebrate, the star sat down with Billboard ‘s Rania Aniftos to discuss how the project came to be. As for why this is the “perfect moment” to release Sincere, Khalid recalled a chance encounter he had in South Africa a year ago. There’s like seven tracks and I don’t even know what was coming on the album and I took his words for the truth and I’ve been chasing it ever since.

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