Multi-hyphenate Alewya makes her highly anticipated return with 'Night Drive' (feat. Dagmawit Ameha).
The track is a deep, seductive anthem that captures her signature fusion of global sounds. Blending driving, party-fuelled beats with haunting Ethiopian melodies. The track showcases her cultural roots and fearless evolution.
‘Night Drive’ offers a glimpse into the elevated, intimate sound Alewya is set to explore in the months ahead. Bold, magnetic, and unapologetic. Alewya is back, and she’s reclaiming her space on her own terms.
Listen to ‘Night Drive’ on Shoot Music New Releases.
Alewya is a child of many worlds: born to an Ethiopian mother, Egyptian father and raised in West London. Now, as a multi-hyphenate artist — singer, musician, painter, sculptor — Alewya draws from many worlds, too. At home, her parents’ Arabian and East African music influence gave her a spiritual release. Revolutionary singer Teddy Afro and jazz icon Mulatu Astatke were on rotation, alongside drum-heavy sounds infused with the meditative strings of the krar and masenqo.
Her brother’s tastes in alternative rock and electronic music showed her alternative ways of being as a young woman of African descent, exposing her to the Pixies and Smashing Pumpkins, among others. Out in the streets, London’s pulsing sound-systems gave her a physical release, raving to funky house drums, junglist breakbeats and the meditative bassweight of Caribbean dub music. These inspirations have all come together in Alewya’s sound: a raw, renegade blend of the devotional rhythms of East Africa and the funk ‘n’ grit of Black Britain.
