With a discography that embraces South African homegrown genres from Amapiano and Gqom to her own pioneering style dubbed “future ghetto funk”, musician and creative visionary Moonchild Sanelly has from the outset blazed her own unique trail. The Port Elizabeth-born maverick is known for her vibrant, inimitable style, affirming lyricism and storytelling, as well as inspirational honesty, across a career which deftly encompasses constant experimentation and innovation, while always remaining accessible and singularly recognizable as Moonchild Sanelly
Thematically her latest album Full Moon sees Sanelly embrace the art of letting go and forgiveness, both of herself and others, as she revisits scenarios across her extraordinary life in a series of musical snapshots. The song-writing process for Full Moon saw her focus on the self and her journey towards self-love, the studio a place which allowed her the creative and personal space required to share these stories.
“My music is about the body and liberation. No one can make it OK for you to feel like you don’t love yourself,” she explains. This new album is the body of work of which she is most proud, as we are seeing the many sides of Moonchild Sanelly. “That’s why it’s called Full Moon”, she says, adding, “A lot of South African music is about dance and forgetting your problems. My vulnerability is about me finding words to describe situations that I used to say f*** you to, when I didn’t have previously to express them because of how dark they were to get into this journey.”
Full Moon is a collection of 12 songs which displays Sanelly’s unique sonic finger print, joyous attitude, distinctive vocals and genre-bending hits, not forgetting a glorious aesthetic crowned by her signature teal-coloured Moon Mop.
The tracklisting for Full Moon is:
- Scrambled Eggs
- Big Booty
- In My Kitchen
- To Kill a Single Girl (Tequila)
- Do My Dance
- Falling
- Gwara Gwara
- Boom
- Sweet & Savage
- I Love People
- Mntanami
- I Was the Biggest Curse
Listen to Full Moon here
View details for Moonchild Sanelly’s tour here
Press release courtesy of iM4 Agency
