Nearly every song the 17-year-old star has ever released was co-written with and produced by her 22-year-old brother Finneas O’Connell, whom she credits and affectionately introduces to concert ...

Amaarae’s Fountain Baby follow-up is on the way. Black Star arrives August 8, via Interscope, and you can watch the video for Ghanaian highlife–inspired single “S.M.O.” below. The Ghanaian ...

Finneas says of the song, “Part of the band identity involves these characters who are singing about an experience to each other. It’s a musical theater design, and it rarely happens in pop.