This week's video is Love You Down by Charmonty. She's an American singer/songwriter. Charmonty has released 4 albums to date- Toxicity (2020), Rose (Colored) (2021), Closure (2022) and her latest, Heart Pieces. She has also brought out two EPs, Good Enough (2021) and something to hold you over (2023). I think she started releasing singles in 2020 and her early singles include I Can Be Lonely, Maybe I Just Wanna Be Yours and Naive. A couple of more recent ones are Keep You Around (released in May 2023) and Honesty (released last December). Love You Down is Charmonty's latest single and is from her newest album Heart Pieces, which came out in April. I came across Love You Down randomly on YouTube. It was released in May and is a smooth, slow R'n'B song. Listen to/stream Heart Pieces at the links below: Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/heart-pieces/1742300079 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3M2q3NCnAEEb61tmmnbk3W YouTube: https://www.youtube.co
Back in 2021 I wrote a post called International Girl Groups, which featured African and Asian girl bands- Angolan girl group Afrikanas and Thai girl group G-TWENTY respectively. You can read the post here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/04/international-girl-groups.html Today I'm doing a follow-up, featuring a couple more groups, African (South African) girl group Group Chat and Asian (Thai) girl group Wizzle. Group Chat Group Chat is a girl group from South Africa. It consists of 3 members- Ney (real name Sinentlanhla Sotshongani), Nolo M (Mmalehlohonolo Mokena) and Fatima Tembe (Fatso). The girls were chosen through auditions in summer 2022 to join The African Gong Group (TAGG) , an independent record label based in Johannesburg. Group Chat released their debut single Jaiva in October 2022 and it inspired a viral dance on TikTok. Their music is a mixture of amapiano , Afropop and kwaito . To date they have released two more singles- Mama in January 2023 and Oops! (