Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

Lojay (Lekan Osifeso Jnr.) is a Nigerian performer, vocalist, songwriter, and performing artisan. With his song Monalisa, which features Chris Brown and Sarz, he reached number eight on the billboard U.S. afrobeat tracks chart. Lojay grew raised in the Nigerian state of Lagos. He is originally from the state of Ogun. He began music expertly in 2016 on a part-time basis while still an undergrad and...