Local singer-songwriter Amanda Black is back with new music and says her second album, entitled Power, comes from a place of triumph.
The 26-year-old star returns from taking a break from music to take her “power back”.
Amanda, whose real name is Amanda Benedicta Antony, says: “I felt uninspired and went through a lot during this time, it felt like a bad creative block and running away from emotions.
“This was me trying to fix things and focus on bettering myself and then I came to a point where I would just let it go and then I started writing.”
Amanda says her new music speaks about self-empowerment and rising up.
“There is a song called Vuka which means ‘rise up, stand up and not giving away power, but gaining power.
“I was basically fighting to take my power back.”
On the 18-track album, she worked with American R&B star Anthony Hamilton, the Grammy award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir, Nigerian musician Adekunle Gold, Ami Faku and poet Kush Mahleka.
Amanda’s first album, title d AmaZulu, was released in 2016.
Amanda also has her own record label, called Afro-Rockstar Production, with Sony Music.
The Idols Season 11 Top 7 finalist says she hopes to do more collaborations in 2020, especially with one of her favourite local artists, Shekhinah.
Power was released digitally on 25 October.