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French-Senegalese artist anaiis’ most recent album, Devotion & The Black Divine (2025), is both soothing and spine-chilling at once, imbued with key messages of self-love as her voice stretches beyond its known range. With her own genre-blending, futurist style, she creates a body of work that gently pushes the boundaries of her comfort zone. Speaking on the lead single, ”Moonlight” anaiis shares a resounding narrative which can be felt throughout the record. “Moonlight is really talking to a younger self and to a younger generation, saying you’re totally enough just as you are. You get to dream as big as you want, and you have to give yourself that permission rather than letting the world decide how you’re seen.”

Her visual accompaniments are an essential extension of her storytelling. Working closely with her partner Tayo Rapoport and collaborators like Ronan McKenzie, she builds worlds through fi...

NB. Tickets from Friday April 17 kl. 10:00.

French-Senegalese artist anaiis’ most recent album, Devotion & The Black Divine (2025), is both soothing and spine-chilling at once, imbued with key messages of self-love as her voice stretches beyond its known range. With her own genre-blending, futurist style, she creates a body of work that gently pushes the boundaries of her comfort zone. Speaking on the lead single, ”Moonlight” anaiis shares a resounding narrative which can be felt throughout the record. “Moonlight is really talking to a younger self and to a younger generation, saying you’re totally enough just as you are. You get to dream as big as you want, and you have to give yourself that permission rather than letting the world decide how you’re seen.”

Her visual accompaniments are an essential extension of her storytelling. Working closely with her partner Tayo Rapoport and collaborators like Ronan McKenzie, she builds worlds through film that invite us to sit between the fantastical and the grounded. The video for “Moonlight” was filmed in a red quarry in Jamaica, its otherworldly landscape evoking the feeling of another planet. Once stripped and excavated, the site now shows signs of renewal, becoming a metaphor for regeneration and healing.

The protagonist in her music is often the vast array of human emotions. Like a tree shaped by its environment, growth is rarely linear; knots and bends form as it adapts to shifting climates. anaiis toys with the idea that the very nature of existence is to move fearlessly through the unknowable. That search for freedom, in sound and spirit, runs through every note. Singles “Deus Deus”, “Dreamer Too” and “My World (beyond)” led to a surge of acclaim with spots on the BBC 6 Music playlists, followed by two AIM award nominations alongside Ezra Collective, Jim Legxacy, Jorja Smith and Wet Leg. Her musical peers echo this, with support from Daniel Caesar, Jamie Woon, Rosie Lowe, Joy Crookes and Kojey Radical amongst others.

In the past year, she toured the US with Mereba, performed at SXSW London, and released a reimagining of Lauryn Hill’s To Zion—with a full choir at Chaka Khan’s Meltdown Festival—alongside two remixes of B.P.E. (Black People Everywhere) by Sango and Hagan. The original track was part of anaiis & Grupo Cosmo, written in collaboration with the Brazilian ensemble and recorded in Salvador da Bahia. Born in Toulouse, raised between Dublin, Dakar and Oakland, and now rooted in London, anaiis’ footholds have shaped a perspective founded in movement and transformation. After her debut single “Nina” in 2018, she released this is no longer a dream in 2021 and went on to support Daniel Caesar on his UK tour, share stages with Erykah Badu and Nick Hakim, headline the Barbican, and speak at TEDxLondonWomen.

From a young age, anaiis was drawn to voice as a vessel for feeling, inspired by artists like Ella Fitzgerald, whose singing she likened to a nightingale, “a singer of infinite song,” as she told the New York Times. This fascination grew into a lineage shaped by the work of Black thinkers and artists: bell hooks (whose influence anaiis acknowledges by styling her own name in lowercase) Nina Simone, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Alice Walker and Ousmane Sembène. These influences shaped anaiis’ conviction to create with freedom and curiosity.

Devotion & The Black Divine is not a conclusion. It is a research in what remains unsaid, a homecoming to a more grounded self, honouring the beauty in doubt, and the power of not knowing....

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