Love this. Just when you’re sitting down wondering how Zaki‘s doing and what she’s up to…BAM…Rolling Stone article, lol. This is your final warning btw. Get up on Zaki now or be relegated to bandwagon jumper for the rest of your life. Shö and Eclectica are out there. Get caught up! Here’s a head start.

It was never in the plan to become a musician – to train for it and figure out the industry,” Zaki Ibrahim confesses just before she heads off to do some grocery shopping in Rosebank. Two things about this scenario are unlikely. Firstly, for anyone who’s followed her career since Shö: Iqra in Orange (2006) and Eclectica: Episodes in Purple (2008), Ibrahim’s approach to making music making seems entirely right; an organic (there’s no other word for it) part of a destiny written when she was born in Vancouver.

Then there’s her innate sense of style. Teaming a vintage shirt with a short skirt, towering heels and nails decorated in red, blue and white for a simple trip to Woolies to buy pasta sauce isn’t out of character for this songstress. With her razored hair, Afro-craft necklace and Amazonian air, Ibrahim looks like the leader of the current pack of Cream Cartelites.

In both her look and music Ibrahim is defiantly eclectic (another overtraded but emblematic description) – and it’s no surprise that Ibrahim used a variation for the title of her first proper album, Eclectica, released via Sony in Canada, the U.S.A. and here. That record earned Ibrahim strong reviews for its collection of songs that gathered up bits and pieces of soul, rap, electronica, Afro-roots and more to create a distinctive sound that she is now extending on her latest album, Every Opposite.

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