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CMU Approved
Approved: Sampa The Great
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 22 May 2017
Since emerging with her debut mixtape in late 2015, Sampa The Great has been building a fine reputation that now seems set to reach a wider audience.
Following the release of new EP – ‘HERoes Act 2’ – and having completed a UK tour, including two shows at The Great Escape, hers is a name I’ve started hearing more often. But it might not have happened at all.
“At a point in time when I didn’t want to continue creating music, and was basically at the brink of giving up before I could even really start, I went through a period of finding inspiration”, she says. “I was able to express this in the form of a three track EP”.
She’s now en route to Australia for tour dates there, so catch her live at those shows if you can. Otherwise, here is the new EP:
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