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“Each language has its personal magic. There are issues you’ll be able to’t sing in English, and it’s important to say in Spanish,” Lisa-Kaind\u00e9 tells New Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Naomi shortly provides, “English is extra direct. Spanish is extra poetic. French brings melody to the storytelling. Singing in French is ethereal.”<\/p>\n
The fraternal twins had a global upbringing. Their Cuban father, Anga Diaz, was a member of the famend Buena Vista Social Club; their mom was a French artist and photographer. Naturally, that had sisters shifting quite a bit between France and Cuba as youngsters.<\/p>\n
“We embraced the variations between the 2 nations. We at all times moved quite a bit, so we embraced all cultures. We toured with our Dad after we had been 2 years outdated. A variety of our household moments had been primarily based on the music in our lounge,” Lisa remembers. “Our mother had us studying devices at 5, and we took classical music classes for ten years, then jazz at 16. I did piano and singing, and he or she did percussion.”<\/p>\n
The sisters took their stage title from the West African Yoruba, the place ibeyi<\/i> means twins. Over the final decade and three data, they’ve developed a sound encompassing a Bj\u00f6rk-esque art-pop and a world music vibe. Their newest single, “Juice of Mandarins,”<\/a> has one foot in R&B and the opposite within the esoteric.<\/p>\n “We made that music after we did [our latest album] Spell 31<\/i>,” Lisa-Kaind\u00e9\u00a0explains. “I believe it is the perfect love music I’ve ever written. The obsessive ardour of falling in love is so magical and painful, however you’ll be able to’t get sufficient. The picture of somebody with the juice of a mandarin orange caught with me.”<\/p>\n