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Back in 2020 rising star BEKA released made her debut with the track ‘I’ll Be There’. She would go on to release a full EP flaunting the same title in 2021. The record demonstrated that she had everything that it takes to be a bonafide star. Now in 2022, BEKA makes her return with a stellar, new EP called Your Skin.

Your Skin is a 6-song offering (two being live tracks) that finds BEKA tapping into her own identity, celebrating the life and journey of her family, as well as touching on topics such as acceptance, self-confidence and more. With mountainous pop soundscapes as the palette, the England-born singer soars with grand vocal performances to equally match the top tier production. Your Skin is our now on LAB Records.

Touching on the EP, BEKA mentioned:

“Your Skin started as a guttural response to thinking about my hair. Wondering how I’d be perceived if I rocked the styles I wear at home, I started to see how little I gave myself permission to wear these looks out because I rarely saw them on women around me.

I felt a bit exposed and started thinking about my heritage and all those unassuming moments that happened to get me here. Thinking about my Grandad in St Vincent & The Grenadines, realising he wanted to become a doctor at age 7, walking to school barefoot, and winning scholarships to study in the UK. Then, getting to York and meeting my Grandma as she studied to be a nurse, them falling in love, having a child, moving back to the tropics as an interracial marriage and after being moved by the British NHS system, setting up social healthcare, caring for the neediest for their whole lives, against the odds, and after so many set backs, then being knighted in 2019. Their story defines so much of where I come from and what makes me feel powerful. This idea of who we come from, who we are and what we’ll leave behind has fascinated me throughout working on this project. Your Skin EP feels like a letter to my younger self.

With the title track, I want every person to be able to sing the chorus lyric “you look great in your skin” with their whole heart, whether they believe it yet or not. That feeling of being surrounded by the stories that have brought you to this point and still choosing to embrace you as YOU is why I wanted a big choir filled, orchestral, 80’s sound with a soaring chorus that you could dance, run, cry and shout to. For me, feeling empowered has happened slowly, worked itself out loudly, and ended in a single line of truth. This is what I wanted to embody musically, as a reminder on the days I find it easy to forget and I hope that’s the same for those who hear it.”