Four years after her self-titled debut EP the stunning songstress that is Sevana is about to release her second EP Be Somebody. Six tracks a little less rootsy musically, yet even more personal than the first set of songs put together by the Jamaican vocalists depict once more her talent and creativity that even the restrictions due to a pandemic couldn’t impair. Munchy linked with Sevana online to find out more about the creation and production process, the stories behind the songs, and the participants of a record, you are going to ‘love like mango’.
YOU ARE JUST ABOUT TO RELEASE YOUR SECOND EP BE SOMEBODY ON FRIDAY, JULY 31. CONGRATS ON YET ANOTHER WONDERFUL AND ENCHANTING RECORD. YOU NAMED THE PROJECT AFTER THE FIRST TRACK OF IT. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THE TITLE OF THIS PARTICULAR SONG FOR THE EP? WHAT DOES THIS SONG MEAN TO YOU?
Thank you for the question, Munchy. Actually, I named it off of the messaging that Be Somebody is about. Over ten years ago I wrote a poem on my Facebook page. I actually looked for it there and found it the other day, that was called Be Somebody. When I wrote Be Somebody (the song) it didn’t connect immediately back to the first piece of writing I wrote about being somebody. I wrote the song, I was like ‘Wait, hold on, I feel like I talked about this already in some form.’ It was kind of a continuation of the messaging that I started over ten years ago in this song. I was like ‘Wow, I have that! I wrote something!’. So, I looked for it and found it like ‘Oh my goodness, this is the ending of this story, this is the ending of this messaging.’ I took this as a sign that I should name the EP Be Somebody. At first the messaging when I wrote it ten years ago, was about being somebody inspite of not having money, not having a certain level of access or support, and kind of just daring to dream and daring to do everything that I want to do. Then the messaging in this song now, which begins the EP, is about how everything is being just levied against me but me still being somebody, me still pressing forward, me wanting to level up, me just doing my best. When it clicked in my mind, I realized that this is the ending of my messaging and that’s why I called it Be Somebody. Because I am being all of me on this project and I’m very proud of it. I think that captures the essence of the whole EP honestly.