Serena Isioma: who is the new non-binary star of American R’n’B?

For le site musical American Song Writer, Serena Isioma’s music is as fresh as it is daring. In part because it offers an adequate fusion between lo-fi music (those vaporous sounds whose compiles hit on YouTube) and hip hop, sometimes spleenetic, sometimes unleashed. The online review even compares his plural musical experiments to those of Frank Ocean, the avant-garde rapper who, too, likes to shake up the lines, standards and expectations of others. The artist’s productivity (two EPs in barely two years, sorry) and his ambitions have already earned him critical recognition.

Thus media recognized as the Complex cultural site no longer hesitate to say it: “Serena Isioma is naturally cool and her soulful voice goes beyond the limits of the genre”. Amen.

A claimed non-binarity

For Serena Isioma, music seems to be a reflection of life, and in particular of the revolutions that characterize our time, and even more so the youth who write it. This is why the artist publicly claims his non-binarity, namely his refusal to be assigned to an identity and the injunctions that accompany it, and promotes in his EP a deconstruction of musical genres.

In short, it doesn’t matter whether you define your art as funk, rock or pop. For them, only the vibrations count. In short, an approach that is as political as it is melodious. And happily unifying.

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