Djiboutian-French star in the making Shay Lia marks her transformative comeback with energetic single ‘Takutá’, available 28th March. The single drops alongside a slick music video starring Shay Lia that displays how multidisciplinary she is as a creative, shining a light on her dancing background.

A bouncy, uptempo track, ‘Takutá’ is embellished with catchy, mantra-like vocal hooks from Shay Lia, interwoven with a playful, energetic beat from Colombian producer/composer, Andrés Rebellón. Showcasing Shay’s bare vocals as she swiftly jumps between singing in French and English, the track is refreshing and unique, creating a huge amount of space for Shay’s percussive vocal rhythms.

‘Takutá’ not only symbolises a return to music for Shay; the track signals the first look at a larger upcoming project from the artist - a pop proposition that the artist conceptualised during a time of personal reclamation. The single’s title doesn’t translate to anything specific, but instead is a call to rejoice and celebrate your body, your sensuality, your melanin and your freedom. Working as a mantra of sorts, for Shay Lia the song fuels her entry into an inspiring new era of power.

For this reentry, she taps into sounds and genres that are reminiscent of her earlier work within dance & electronic spheres. “TAKUTÁ is a joyful expression of my singularity - of all the facets of myself”, says Shay, “It’s a fun, freeing song that calls to the influences that have flowed through me throughout the different lifetimes I’ve lived all over the world.”.