The Tanzanian-Australian artist’s debut EP whips through growing pains, schoolyard racism and climate change – and finds beauty amid it all
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Beckah Amani likes to say that she was “born out of a love of music”. The 23-year-old singer-songwriter was raised in Tanzania by Burundian parents, who first met at church as teenagers.
Amani’s father was the choir conductor – “the cool dude who played everything” – and her mother wanted to get to know him. Amani relays mum’s pick-up line with deep affection: “She was like: ‘Can you teach me how to play guitar?’”