New York, NY (Top40 Charts) �It just needs to be true,� Canadian R&B Neo-soul and Afro-beat artist Zenesoul says, as she looks for �That Love� in her newest single.
�When I first heard the beat from my producer, Larumadeit, I instantly thought of that nostalgic type of love people had in the past,� Zenesoul - Angie Akhinagba - shares of the song teeming with the lush, enveloping sound that�s all her own. �Think: 90s
Black love culture found in movies, family TV shows, and R&B music of the time.
�And this is how I usually write... Not with pen and paper, but with hearing the music, getting a theme or a vibe in mind, and then singing melodies and lyrics to expand it into a song.�
Born in Nigeria and based in Toronto, Zenesoul (zen-soul) released her debut EP, Worth, in 2019. Since then, a steady stream of ceiling-shattering singles � including �Love and Be Loved,� �Sunday,� and �I Will Not Be Silenced� � succeeded 2020�s premiere full-length, Coffee.
�My previous project, Coffee, took listeners through my tribulations with toxic love,� Zenesoul expands. �Since then, I�d made a pact to only search for the best love, so the song became a manifestation of the love I wanted in my life after such hard times dealing with it in the past.
�So in the lyrics of �That Love,� I explain I�m no longer settling for an inferior love anymore�� she continues. �I will only love someone that loves me the same way and, since I�m not perfect, their love doesn�t need to be either.
�It just,� she underscores, �needs to be true.�
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Vm0FcxOL1U49ppmmA1GLH?si=B8dqCpIjTbSJsI23o2mdjA
With more than 875,000k streams across platforms, Zenesoul has performed at the This is Brampton: NXNE music festival, and garnered multiple features across playlists, blogs, and podcasts � including CTV Morning Live, Earmilk, Rory from the
Joe Budden Podcast and R&B Radar.