Taré Souza, an R&B and soul artist, came onto the scene when I was in my second year of uni, and I immediately found kin in her music. She had a six-track soul R&B EP called Sun in Me released through Soundcloud. It seared through my skin and wrapped itself around a heart that was learning love. It was Lauryn Hill nodding at Sade and hugging Lala Hathaway and spudding Jazmine Sullivan with something new and crisp on the way, a softness that was razor-edged, love expressed like it was a knife that could cut through pain or simply cut you. It was a melancholia that was whimsical, joy that was
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