Beckah Amani shares exclusive “if memories could talk” playlist to accompany The Cover

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NME’s latest star of The Cover, Beckah Amani, has compiled an exclusive playlist to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below.The Burundian-Australian singer-songwriter is on this week’s (November 4) edition of The Cover, a renewal of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis.

Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read the profile of Beckah Amani here, written by Sosefina Fuamoli and featuring photography by Danny Draxx.The Cover is accompanied by an exclusive playlist compiled by Amani, titled “if memories could talk”.

The playlist features tracks by Raye, Olivia Dean, Mustafa and Rachel Chinouriri, among others. Listen to the full playlist on Spotify below and on Apple Music.In The Cover, Amani tells NME how she made her debut album, ‘This Is How I Remember It.’, by thinking of it as a garden of flowers. “The biggest strengths of this garden are the stories that exist within the creative process of it,” she says. “I can see how I’ve grown so much in that process.

There is a lot that has happened in the world; there is a lot that has happened to me personally, just growing as a young adult and Black woman in the music industry.