HAWA’s bright, wide smile is a stark contrast against the gray cityscape of a bustling Brooklyn, sprawling out around her. She sits, sipping coffee, unfazed by chattering passersby and hurried ...

photo by Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr. With the album announcement comes the release of rhythmic, impassioned lead single “Gemini,” and a steamy music video directed by Courtney Sofiah Yates. Watch it ...

Hawa has announced her debut album: Hadja Bangoura will arrive on November 4 via 4AD. The 11-track album is named after the Brooklyn-based artist’s great-grandmother, and was written in Conakry, ...

HAWA's debut album Hadja Bangoura, released last week, only clocks in at 18 minutes long but makes a major impact with its brief runtime . The 22-year-old artist was born in the Guinea capital of ...

On her debut album, the Brooklyn-based producer and singer smartly and subtly remakes her sound, meshing R&B and New York drill in melodically refined and technically daring ways. No score yet, be the ...