Ama Serwah Genfi, better known as Amaarae, is a Ghanaian-American singer and composer. She is noted for combining Pop, R&B, Afrobeat, and Alté music and her flexible gender and sexuality expression. In 2017, she launched her debut EP, Passionfruit Summers, after collaborating with local artists and releasing a few non-album songs.
She received great acclaim for her debut album, The Angel You Don’t Know, published in 2020. On TikTok, Moliy’s song “Sad Girlz Luv Money” became popular. The song was remixed with a feature from Kali Uchis and peaked globally in 2021. The album was labeled “Best New Music” by Pitchfork and ranked the 19th best album of 2020.
She released her long-anticipated second album, Fountain Baby, to excellent reviews on June 9, 2023.
Amaarae Biography
| Birth Name: | Ama Serwah Genfi |
| Stage Name: | Amaarae |
| Born: | 4 July 1994 |
| Birth Place: | New York |
| Nationality: | Ghanaian-American |
| Occupation: | Singer • Songwriter |
| Record Label: | Golden Child Records |
| Net Worth: | $400,000 |
Early Life
Ama Serwah Genfi, aka Amaarae (born July 4, 1994, 31 years old) in the Bronx, New York, to Ama Bawuah and Kwadwo Boateng Genfi and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and Accra, Ghana. She is the elder of two siblings.
She wrote her first song when she was 13 years old. During her adolescence, she adored watching music videos and recalls watching the music video for Kelis’ song “Young, Fresh n’ New” as one of her most vivid recollections. Kelis’ distinct expression inspired her.
She began making mixtapes in high school. She started an internship at a recording studio when she was 17. She received voice instruction and polished her songwriting skills while studying English literature at a postsecondary institution. In June 2017, she returned to Ghana.
Education
Amaarae studied English literature at a university in the United Kingdom.
Career
In 2017, Amaarae released her debut album, Passionfruit Summers. The song “Fluid” is on the album and is accompanied by a music video.
Amaarae was selected as one of Apple Music Africa’s Favourite New Artists in April 2018. Later that year, she became an Apple Music Beats 1 featured artist for her debut project, Passionfruit Summers, which she released on November 30, 2017, through her independent record label, Golden Child LLC.
In November 2018, she performed at ART X Lagos, a Nigerian art fair, alongside Teni, Boj of DRB LasGidi, and Odunsi. Amaarae has also been recognized for her sense of style and fashion.
In 2018, she was featured in Vogue Online in an article on four women with buzz haircuts from around the world, and she was named one of Vogue Online’s Top 100 Style Influencers of 2018. She was nominated for Artist of the Year at Ghana’s Glitz Style Awards. She has also supported the Ghanaian fashion label Free The Youth.
Amaarae was picked to perform alongside La Meme Gang (Nxwrth, RJZ, KwakuBS, Darkovibes, Kiddblack, and $pacely) and rapper Kwesi Arthur at the first Boiler Room event in Accra on March 23, 2019.
Since then, Amaarae has worked with Stonebwoy, Kojey Radical, M3NSA, Santi, Blaqbonez, Buju, Odunsi, and B4bonah. Wande Coal, a Nigerian singer-songwriter, collaborated with her in 2019.
Amaarae’s debut album, The Angel You Don’t Know, was released on November 12, 2020. Pitchfork’s Owen Myers described it as “crackles with innovation, a pacesetter at a time when industry bigwigs are waking up to the long-held truth that Africa is setting the global tempo for pop music.”
Amaarae, with Black Sherif, Stonebwoy, and Smallgod, met Kendrick Lamar in May 2022 during his visit to Ghana. He held a private listening party in Accra for his new album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.
Interscope Records released her sophomore album, Fountain Baby, on June 9, 2023. The statement also revealed that she was the first Ghanaian to appear on NPR Tiny Desk.
EP
2017: Passionfruit Summers
Albums
- 2020: The Angel You Don’t Know
- 2023: Fountain Baby
- Selected Singles
- 2019: Spend Some Time (featuring Wande Coal)
- 2020: Leave Me Alone
- 2021: Sad Girlz Luv Money (with Moliy featuring Kali Uchis)
- 2023: Reckless & Sweet
- 2023: Fountain Baby
- 2023: Co-Star
Personal Life
Physically invading, Amaarae enjoys a spectacular appearance with her tinted glasses of various colors, which differs from her plain glasses.
Amaarae Relationship
Amaarae is rumored to be in a secret relationship that she desires to keep quiet.
While this is still a rumor with no credible source to back it up, we must assume that Amaarae is still single and not in any public dating relationship.
Amaarae Faults Grammy Organizers For Creating African Category
Amaarae criticized the Recording Academy, the Grammy Awards‘ organizers, this month for lumping all African music styles into one category at the award event.
In a June interview with Metro TV, Amaarae described the Grammys’ decision to lump all African musical genres into a single category as “reductive.”
She said: “The idea of an African category [at the Grammys] is excellent in practice, but I think it is reductive. There are way too many categories to just place under an umbrella of African music.
“Take a song like ‘Sad Girlz’, ‘Calm Down,’ or ‘Calm Down’ or ‘Last Last’; these are all songs that didn’t just do well in Africa but did well globally and had humongous global impacts. So, to me, they are popular records.
“So, I feel like a record like [Rema’s] ‘Calm Down’ with the remix with Selena Gomez, that should be able to compete in pop categories [at the Grammys]. I feel like [Burna Boy’s] ‘Last Last’ should be able to compete in hip-hop, RnB, or pop categories and not be relegated to just the African category because that’s reductive of the works that [African] artists have done to break boundaries.”
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Net Worth
Amaarae is a Ghanaian-American singer-songwriter with an estimated net worth of $400,000. She is noted for combining Pop, R&B, Afrobeat, and Alté music and her flexible gender and sexuality expression. In 2017, she launched her debut EP, Passionfruit Summers, after collaborating with local artists and releasing a few non-album songs.
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American.
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Amaarae is a multi-talented musician and English Lit major from Accra, Ghana. Experimenting with music from an early age, the singer-songwriter, producer, and sound engineer traveled extensively as a child.
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Amaarae is rumored to be in a secret relationship that she desires to keep quiet.
