South African singer and songwriter, Lungi Naidoo, releases her new Afrobeats flavoured single 'Duro', taken from her recently released EP, 'COURAGE'

The music video for the first single 'Feel Good' has received over 50 flightings on various TV channels including MTV Base, Trace, Channel O and SABC.

Duro' is the most personal track on the EP. Lungi explains the significance and personal nature of the track divulging, “‘Duro’ in Yoruba means ‘stand’ or ‘wait’ but also an Igbo word for "sit" or "stay". This song is about a love like no other.

I was pregnant when we did this song and I remember Dantae and Amelia asking me where I was in my life and what’s the one thing I would love to have more than anything, like if God were to grant you a gift, what would that be? I disclosed to them that I was pregnant and I would give anything to hear the baby’s heartbeat.

Dantae wanted the song to have an a cappella build-up and so we recorded dry vocals and started writing the song. It’s the song on the EP that makes my heart skip a beat every time I play it. We lost the baby a few weeks later and I recorded the song while I was going through that. This is a song about love in its purist form, a love between a mom and her unborn baby.”

Tracks from the COURAGE EP have already received over 500 plays on radio stations around the world including the US, UK, Canada, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa since release. The music video for the first single 'Feel Good' has received over 50 flightings on various TV channels including MTV Base, Trace, Channel O and SABC.

COURAGE has seen the release of the following singles: 'Feel Good' (23 July), 'About You' (20 August), 'Azania' (17 September) and now the new focus track 'Duro'. The COURAGE EP was co-written, recorded and produced by Dantae Johnson at The Woods Studios in London and mixed & executive produced by Pete ‘Boxsta’ Martin at the Matrix Studio complex. 'Addicted' was produced by Tega at Blues Steam Entertainment Studio in Lagos, Nigeria. Lungi recorded all the vocals at the Sound Foundry studio in Cape Town with Greg Abrahams.

Producers and co-writers on COURAGE include: London based South African born producer Pete 'Boxsta' Martin (Marshmello, James Arthur, Dope Saint Jude, Mali Music); UK producer & songwriter Dantae Johnson (Boys Noize, Kamille, JLS, Donel, Hrvy and Rak-Su); Ghanaian producer GuiltyBeatz (Mr Eazi, Kida Kudz, Sarkodie, Beyonce’s Lion King and hit single Akwaaba); GoodThings (Afro B, Stefflon Don, Rak-Su); Tega (DJ Spinall, DJ Tunez); Florian Fourlin (French multi-instrumentalist and producer); and Mike Keyz (K. Michelle, Wretch 32 and Kojey Radical).