Ayra Starr Talks Overcoming Imposter Syndrome, ‘Rush’ Success & More

Ayra Starr is recent off her first Grammy nomination, with loads of new music in retailer for 2024, and he or she sat down with Billboard‘s Rania Aniftos to debate her breakthrough profession.

“It’s been a very long time coming,” she says of the brand new Grammy class, finest African music efficiency, which she was nominated for on the 2024 ceremony. “African music has been it and has been popping for such a very long time. Afrobeats has been taking up the world. I really feel like that is very validating for everybody who put effort into this.”

She added of the style: “It’s excessive vibrational music. God blessed us.”

The star additionally just lately launched her emotional new single “Commas,” which she says she cherished experimenting with in the course of the songwriting course of. “Folks used to really feel very touched by my voice. Once I would sing in secondary college, I’d see folks cry as a result of I’d sing the saddest songs,” she stated. “My voice all the time had that factor the place it could make folks really feel it doesn’t matter what I’m singing. I used to be like, ‘ what? I would like folks to really feel this music.’ I had 15 variations of ‘Commas.’ […] I wished folks to transcend after they take heed to it. I would like folks to really feel good.”

She added that “Commas” can be featured on an upcoming album, which can exhibit a brand new, extra advanced and female aspect of the singer. “The Ayra Starr I need to introduce is great, sonically wonderful. This album is exclusive, as a result of I’ve been evolving sonically,” she says.

Watch Billboard‘s full interview with Ayra Starr above.