He is much smaller than his wife, as well as meeker. So in terms of the music, I followed him to Jamaica.The King of Hearts is the consort of the Queen of Hearts, and, unlike most instances, is generally the lesser of the two monarchs. When I’m doing collabs, I want to make sure, with everybody I’m featuring, I go to their part of the world and get introduced to new sounds. This is a dancehall song ‘cause I wanted to make something different for me, but keep it comfortable for him. I sent some stuff, he chose this one and told me we can even write another one. I messaged him, saying ‘Bro, I really need to work with you’. Konshens had a show in Kenya and was here for two weeks I think. “On this album I really wanted to work with different people. I went to France and got a chance to go to his studio and we made this record.” It’s got that R&B sound and a bit of zouk with some French flavour. “I’m always comfortable when I’m doing R&B so this is one of the songs I really like on the album-it’s one the best! Joé produced this beat by the way, so shout out to him. It’s a sound that I love and I wanted to do it in the right way-I didn’t want to totally change my identity, and I got a chance to do it here.” I’d say it’s one of the sounds that’s going big globally, and we as Africans are all doing it to try to reach other people. Amapiano is a great sound, and I was just waiting for the right time and right song. It’s amapiano and there’s some elements of Bongo Flava and percussion from Afrobeats. If you listen to this, there’s different sounds of the continent. “For this one I’d say, in Africa, we’re all one. It’s one of the first songs on the album and even Gyakie loves this song so much.” She ended up getting a show in Tanzania so I went and we planned a session after. I remember I DM’d her telling her I’m a big fan, love her sound and thought we should do something for the fans. I felt like I needed to do something with her. “This is a bit of Afropop mixed with zouk. When Bien came to the country I invited him to my studio, played this song and he said ‘I think this is the one we have to do’. When the song started growing we felt maybe this is a big song and we need to feature a strong singer. We ended up starting a verse then the idea came, which I thought was very strong. I was in the studio and one of my artists was playing the guitar then I just started vibing on the song. It’s, like, in 60% Swahili so it’s easy to understand. It’s a deep, deep love song that’s so lyrical and mostly just guitar and melodies. “This is the first song and it’s one of my favourites. Here, he takes us through some of the sounds of key tracks on the album. I always look at what people are doing and try put it in the music”. “It's mostly African sounds that will get you feeling something. “There are sounds on this that can take you to different places with the features,” he explains. “I have a lot of lady fans so most of the songs on the album focus on different things about love there’s personal stories, partying songs and slow songs.” Taking a pan-African approach to his project, Jux taps artists from different regions including Fik Fameica, Patoranking and Blxckie, and extends his reach from tropical climes to the likes of Paris. “King of Hearts is all about love,” Jux tells Apple Music. King of Hearts sees Tanzanian singer Jux capture the various facets of love while infusing bongo flava, zouk, Afrobeats, amapiano and acoustic sounds into his signature R&B sound.
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