Seinabo Sey: At Home Anywhere, Ruling Airwaves Everywhere

When the Kygo remix of Seinabo Sey's 2014 single "Younger" broke in 2014, Sey was quickly celebrated as an heir apparent to pop stardom. And it makes a certain kind of cosmic sense: she comes from music royalty. Her late father, Maudo Sey, was a celebrated musician in the Gambia and Senegal. Sey was primarily raised in Stockholm, Sweden, listening to a potent brew of Alicia Keys, classic R&B, and reggae music, but she's creating a sound uniquely her own. After two critically-acclaimed EPs, For Madeleine and For Maudo (named for her mother and her father, respectively), Sey is readying her first full-length album this fall. It's called Pretend, and she visits the Soundcheck studio to talk to host John Schaefer about her Swedish childhood, why she named her records after her parents, and why she likes women in videos.