{"id":3100,"date":"2024-03-13T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2024-03-07T21:07:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T21:07:29","slug":"sofar-stories-ayoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/articles\/sofar-stories-ayoni","title":{"rendered":"Sofar Stories: Ayoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hailing from the vibrant shores of Barbados, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/2Tju7nLsAMD6RTBna56hj6?si=oH-BFAwSQWqoBgEm_b3AAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ayoni<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> now makes waves in the music scene of sunny Los Angeles. She\u2019s a dynamic performer, a captivating singer-songwriter, and is drawing attention for her spellbinding fusion of R&amp;B and soul influences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ayoni has played several Sofars, most notably as part of the Sofar Artist Residency in London. She gained some international attention after featuring on two tracks on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/1RThtoZbeE7OQHMBzaBCJt?si=2T9N9KGjQnabTs_xXXxQ7w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Noname\u2019s critically acclaimed 2023 album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sundial<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Her music is soulful, tender, and vulnerable, with lyrics that hit you right in the heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the latest in our Sofar Stories series, Ayoni talks about the residency and how it gave her a chance to write and record her forthcoming album: a story of personal growth, artistic discovery, and the courage to embrace change and learn through life\u2019s many trials. The new record will be her most personal to date, after the more experimental <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iridescent <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the residency, Ayoni said: \u201cI\u2019ve spent my time in London being a person and decompressing. It\u2019s been a really incredible year. All the things I\u2019ve been through, I really wanted to come back to LA with a new sense of self. A lot of my time here has been spent visiting my loved ones, listening to music, walking around, playing shows, writing songs, and I\u2019m going to take them back to Los Angeles and decide my tracklist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch the video for more of Ayoni\u2019s story:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sofar Stories: Ayoni\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PYn479mUXaE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hailing from the vibrant shores of Barbados, Ayoni now makes waves in the music scene of sunny Los Angeles. She\u2019s a dynamic performer, a captivating singer-songwriter, and is drawing attention for her spellbinding fusion of R&amp;B and soul influences.\u00a0 Ayoni has played several Sofars, most notably as part of the Sofar Artist Residency in London. 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