Local singer, songwriter and producer EGGSTA has been hard at work on new music for a long time now. She has a number of new tracks under her sleeve and is officially embarking on a new chapter of her career as she teams up with local crooner Lee Cole for the first of many new releases. In fact, ‘BAE’ serves as the lead single off the star’s upcoming EP ‘Back Home’.
‘ BAE’, a millennial acronym for “Before Anyone Else” was recorded whilst EGGSTA was in South Africa during the 2020 global pandemic. The song was written by EGGSTA originally as an acoustic record in a beautiful garden in Surrey, United Kingdom where EGGSTA resided for a few years, later developing and producing the song herself into an electronic dance record.
The song is about a romantic relationship between two individuals, whether being in an early relationship or having been together for years and that their partner comes “Before Anyone Else”. EGGSTA wanted to add a male perspective to the song and Lee Cole was the perfect addition. “I remember hearing his song “I Don’t Wanna Wait” and thinking I had to have him on BAE. I knew his sultry, jazzy vocal would compliment the song perfectly,” she says. “He nailed it in basically one take and I couldn’t be happier to have him on this song. I really love how our voices are so incredibly different yet blended so perfectly together.”
EGGSTA is set to release her EP “Back Home” later this year featuring multiple South African artists, with “BAE” being the first single off the EP. The “Back Home” EP is the nostalgic expression EGGSTA feels about being “Back Home”, in South Africa. The songs and artists featured all correlate with this feeling. Incorporating a further expression of how it felt in 2020 being kept at home as an artist and the feeling South Africa gives EGGSTA each time she returns “home” for a period. The EP will bring this feeling to life through music.
“There’s something quite beautiful about South Africa that always humbles me from the moment I step foot off the plane. I can’t quite explain it but if you’ve lived here, you know just how special this place is,” EGGSTA explains.
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