London-born, Essex-based R&B singer Konyikeh is ready for the world to know her. Since finding the spotlight with her opening solo in Dave’s 2022 BRIT Awards rendition of ‘In The Fire’, the 23-year-old has only gone from strength to strength. “It’s all a bit surreal. I couldn’t look back on the performance for months and months and months and months because I can’t look at myself, so it’s only recently that I have seen the performance and I’m like, I really did that. Crazy.”
Releasing her first two singles ‘Sorrow’ and ‘Teenage Dreams’ in April and June respectively, she has now graced us with her debut EP ‘Litany’ which came out on Wednesday. With rich vocals, surging melodies and an impressive depth of lyrical feeling, this debut really exemplifies Konyikeh’s feeling that “in music I can be my most authentic self”. There is no denying this, very honestly she explains that music “is a sort of therapy because these songs I wrote in my bedroom and I didn’t think anyone would hear them, so it was me at my most raw and my most vulnerable.”
