Seinabo Sey Touches Down In Austin

Adam Kissick for NPR
MARCH 20, 2015 4:55 PM
This week in Austin, Texas, Seinabo Sey gave her first performance at South by Southwest. It was an emotional moment for the singer, who told the crowd that if there's one thing she'd like them to learn from her music, it's that "anything is possible. You have to understand: I am from a tiny town on the west coast of Sweden."

Sey grew up in Halmstad, home to about 60,000 people, with a Swedish mother and a Gambian father. The latter, a renowned musician and vocalist, died after a stroke two years ago — but his influence lives on in the work of his daughter, who this year won Sweden's version of a Grammy for best new artist, and last year topped Billboard's Hot Dance Club with the song "Younger."


That song, like all her songs, has English lyrics. She says that's partly a reflection of a conflicted relationship with her home country.
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