We Speak R&B

New Music Video & Single from DONDRIA

Published

2 years ago

January 26, 2023

R&B singer/songwriter and artist, Dondria, is known for serenading us with love songs and ballads but if you follow her Instagram page, you already know that she has a good time too!

So many changes have happened in Dondria’s life and it reflects in the music. She’s back to Atlanta, back to her first love music, and steering her career with a renewed purpose, self-awareness, attitude, and direction. She kicked off 2023 by releasing a new EP, Perspective, on her newly formed company, Awe Me Entertainment, in partnership with 630 Productions.

In her latest single released from the EP, “Good Company,” she sings, “One Thing About Me, I Only Want Good Company!.. Toast to the good life. Sip on something for my vibe. Just enough to get me nice!” The up-tempo song, “Good Company!” is just about getting with her girlfriends and having a good time. “I was talking with my executive producer and creative partner, Josh Bias, and we thought it was about time I show my fun side in the music! I love to have a good time. I AM good company and that’s all I want around me.”

So join in on the fun! Don’t kill Dondria’s vibe because she only wants good company!

About Dondria

Dondria’s career started in 2007. With a $15 webcam, a voice touched by God. A candid rendition of Ciara’s “Promise,” Dondria, aka Lil Phatfffat (her name on YouTube), captured the audience of millions, including the ear of super producer Jermaine Dupri. His DM changed the young Dallas native’s life forever! At just 20 years old, Dondria signed a one-of-a-kind deal with So So Def Records and, under Dupri’s mentorship and management, released her debut album, Dondria vs. Phatfffat, in August 2010. The album contained 11 timeless tracks, with songs written and produced by Dupri and veteran songwriter/producer Bryan Michael Cox including her first Billboard charting single, “You’re The One.” Dondria was the opening act on the “Passion, Pain, and Pleasure Tour” headlined by Trey Songz and Monica.

She appeared and performed in several productions, including National Geographic’s GENIUS: Aretha Franklin biopic (2021), BET +’s “First Wives Club” (season 3), headlined the 2021 Taste Of Soul Festival, and toured with her friend, Jade Novah, on her “Moon In Pisces Tour.” In 2022, she also performed in a tribute to Keri Hilson for Black Music Honors and received the Boss Babe’s Trailblazer Award.

Follow Dondria:

www.dondrianicole.com

www.twitter.com/dondria / www.instagram.com/dondrianicole

www.facebook.com/officialdondria / www.soundcloud.com/dondria

We Speak Jazz

Babé Sila returns with ‘Forever (Bhebbak)’, a soulful meditation on intercultural love

Published

2 weeks ago

April 25, 2025

Morgan

Budapest-born, London-based singer-songwriter Babé Sila is back with a luminous new single, Forever (Bhebbak), now available on all platforms. With this track, she proves her ability to turn deeply personal moments into something universal. Rooted in a timeless Middle Eastern folk melody made famous by Fairuz, Forever (Bhebbak) (which means “I love you” in Lebanese dialect) is both a love letter and a reflection, on intimacy, memory and the quiet hope that love can outlast the moment it’s born in.

The song takes us on a cross-continental journey, musically and emotionally. From its bossa nova rhythms and Spanish guitar to the hypnotic jazz piano and floating flutes, the soundscape carries the weight of shared heritage and fragile longing. Babé Sila explains how the melody’s legacy, heard across Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Andalusian households, mirrors her own experience of loving across cultures and identities. “As someone with ties to parts of this heritage, in love with someone who shares parts of it too, I felt an instinctive pull towards it… It carries a legacy that has connected communities for generations—just as it connected us, despite our different backgrounds. It’s a shared melody that could act as a reminder how music and culture can build bridges, bringing us back to the common human experiences we all share” she says, and it shows.

Familiar yet foreign, delicate & magnetic, Forever (Bhebbak) feels like a delicious memory you haven’t lived yet. Succeeding to Summer Sings, it continues to introduce us to Babé Sila’s upcoming EP, I Told The Sun About You, dropping June 20. If this single is any indication, the project promises to be an intimate exploration of love in all its emotional complexity.