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“Known among a true base of fans for her inventive takes on R&B, the music of Joya Mooi is a delight.” – OkayAfrica
“A voice for the new and next generation” – Notion
“Joya Mooi cements herself as an enthralling artist” – 1883
“a heavenly slice of modern R&B that sparks a moment of tranquillity and reflection” – Afropunk
“a gorgeous piece of R&B songwriting” – CLASH
South African-Dutch artist Joya Mooi has always treated music as a vessel for stories; both intimate and inherited. In 2025, her voice feels more vital than ever: tender yet unflinching, reflective yet unafraid to confront the overlooked tales of the diaspora. What sets her apart is not only her ability to weave history and identity into song, but her instinct for reframing emotions often flattened in pop music.
Her new single, Technicolour, embodies this approach in striking detail. Where envy is usually reduced to a single shade, Joya treats it as a prism, refracting into tones of admiration, insecurity, and self-discovery. The result is a reminder that feelings we’re taught to fear or conceal can carry nuance, even beauty.
Born in Amsterdam with South African duo Easy Freak and illuminated by Chicago’s charismatic Ric Wilson, the track moves with a buoyant groove that proves introspection doesn’t need to sit still. Joya’s voice glides across the beat like sunlight shifting through glass: warm, searching, and quietly radical.
If last year’s Open Hearts EP sparked dialogue around resilience and collective memory, Technicolour extends that conversation into the realm of everyday emotional complexity, envy, longing, doubt, and joy while refusing to simplify them into neat categories.
There’s a globalism to Joya Mooi’s sound that feels lived-in rather than manufactured. From Amsterdam to Johannesburg, Chicago to Tokyo, her music moves like a cultural exchange: generous, unforced, and true to her own voice. Whether performing to curious audiences in Japan or collaborating with diasporic peers across continents, Joya Mooi expands the frame of what pop music can hold.
At its core, Technicolour is about seeing emotion itself as a spectrum worth celebrating. It’s a song for dancing through contradictions, for sitting with doubt, for reframing envy not as a weakness but as an opening.
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