Glooriously Sung by Amaya
Amaya Gloor – a new name signed to Universal, and here’s her debut EP, entitled “Unfinished”. “Unfinished”, when the singer/songwriter has barely set off on her career? Well, judging from the strength of this six-track song collection, it is absolutely certain we will hear plenty more from this 22-year-old from the Bernese mountains.
Singing in English and Spanish – thanks to a mother with family ties to Jamaica and Costa Rica –, Amaya started playing the piano aged five and wrote her first songs when she hit her teens. Citing Rita Ora, reggaeton, trap, Nat King Cole and the blues as inspirations, she already sings in what is very much her own voice. At home in a flurry of house or trap beats just as much as in a huge R&B chorus or in a tsunami of pure pop euphoria, her voice is elastic enough to deal with any obstacle the song might throw in her way. We say: watch this space!
