Yaya Bey - Remember Your North Star (2LP)

Enigmatic, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, Yaya Bey, is due to release her most expansive work to date, Remember Your North Star, on 17th June 2022, the debut album on newly relaunched label Big Dada. The album explores the landscape of Black music via Yaya’s storyteller approach and examines themes of romantic turbulence, female empowerment, fraught parental relationships and self-actualization, with production primarily from Yaya, Aja Grant (of Phony Ppl) and DJ Nativesun. Yaya Bey is an artist who "effortlessly mingles the personal and political with enthralling freshness” as described by Pitchfork.

Yaya’s new LP showcases her experimental approach to R&B, Hip Hop, Jazz, Reggae and Afrobeat.

Yaya has garnered fans and co-signs from the likes of Moses Sumney, Phony Ppl, James Blake, Kota The Friend, Mndsgn, and more.

As a multidisciplinary artist, Yaya also uses art to tell her story and has had her work shown in galleries; with two notable residencies in Brooklyn’s Mocada Museum. Her first release, The Many Alter - Egos of Trill’eta Brown in 2016, incorporated a digital collage and a book. This was highly praised by Solange’s Saint Heron agency, The FADER, Essence, and many more.

1. intro

2. libation

3. big daddy ya

4. keisha

5. nobody knows

6. alright

7. meet me in brooklyn

8. it was just a dance

9. pour up (feat. DJ Nativesun)

10. uh uh nxgga

11. reprise

12. rolling stoner

13. don't fucking call me

14. i'm certain she's there

15. street fighter blues

16. mama loves her son

17. either way

18. blessings