Anne-Fay will release her new album +1 on 10 May. The album was composed and produced in collaboration with Jeremia Jones (Damian Marley, Stefflon Don), with contributions from Morgan Avenue (S10, Willem), Elisha Amonoo-Neizer/EAN Music (Frenna, Nana Fofie), Timothy Banchet, Adje, Gerson Main and Typhoon.
On +1, Anne-Fay offers an alternative take on motherhood. No sweet pastel images or dreamy guitar songs, but heavy ballads and raw dancehall rhythms that make the intensity, struggle and beauty of momhood tangible. The album shows that motherhood is not only romantic and tender, but also confrontational, physical and full of sharp contrasts. Anne-Fay transforms momhood into something greater: a powerful, honest and often uncomfortable reality that radiates beauty in all its rawness. It is also about the bond with your own mother, it is about all the friends and aunts who are your ‘village’, who care for you and help care for your child. Nightly app contact while feeding, sending memes to cheer each other up or to reassure each other that you are not alone and not the only one who sometimes gets it wrong or does something wrong.
A year after her debut album Reaspora, Anne-Fay became the mother of a daughter in 2022; in 2025 she completed her new album +1. She wrote the first song, Where do all the children go?, during her pregnancy. A close friend lost her child. Why do we lose children, through miscarriages but also through wars and genocides? And what impact does that have on people? During her first years as a mother, it was also a quest to be creative; how on earth do you do that with a baby or toddler? Slowly but surely, she wrote the songs and an entire album came together. About the hormonal journey, about the uncertainties, about the break-up with the father, about the fears of raising a girl in this world, and especially a girl of colour. About how not to dim her fire and anger, but to channel it in the right direction.