Sia Tolno is an award-winning Guinean-Sierraleonian global touring & recording artist, vocalist and songwriter, steeped in Afrobeat, Afro-blues, Mandinga and Soukous styles of African popular music.
Her music is both personal and universal, singing about her unique past while making it relevant to the masses. Sia’s previous album was produced by Tony Allen and Lusafrica records, and her new album is being produced and recorded in Barcelona by Aaron Feder in collaboration with Slow Walk Music.
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NEWS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17th, 2023 - Los Angeles, California CONTACT: Craig S. Hyman Numinous Music Email: craigshyman@gmail.com Phone: (917)-854-6315 SIA TOLNO & AFRO DEAD announce their second round of US Summer 2023 tour dates and the brand new Sia Tolno single and music video “Baya”. The first single from the “Baya” EP is the title track “Baya”, a blues infused Afro Beat that is accompanied by the release of a spectacular music video. Sia says that “Baya is a rhyming Afrobeat Blues song typically danced to by happy villagers during fiesta”. “Baya” Music Video “Baya” Audio "Baya" means “Beads” which symbolizes beauty. African women put it around their waist to illustrate the beauty and the power of African women, which they do in the village scenes in the music video. “The Baya is mostly used during different festivities and rituals in our villages and is a vibrant homage to African women and their inner and outer beauty”. The concept of Baya is incorporated in the song during the chorus, as well as the last part of the song with the women singing the chorus, and at the same time Sia singing “give me the Baya, I would like to join the dance”. The song itself starts by singing the "African blues" referring to traditional village songs and celebrations at dawn around the fire light and continues in Sia’s language Kissi (which is spoken in the three neighboring West African countries, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia) while the women of the village bring in the bowl of beads while dancing. The production of the music video is quite unique and culturally rich. Filmed in the village of Termeh, in the region of Forecariah in Guinea, West Africa, as well as France, it incorporates performances and rituals by the Baga Guinea, the women from the tribe of Baga. In the video we are allowed into the world of the Baga villagers in a most uncommon way, and experience how much life and celebration of life they bring to their culture and fortunately to the music video and in turn the viewer. Sia’s performance in the video highlights the bravery and beauty of African women.
