No Reason To Pretend is a weekly column by Stephen Kearse that explores the intersection of hip-hop and pop culture. Sampha knows death. The British singer and producer lost his father to cancer at a ...

Last Friday, Sampha dropped his debut album, Process. However, calling it a debut album betrays his experience. Sampha might not have a household name, but that’s not because of his lack of influence ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It’s easy to forget that music can be as therapeutic for the artist to make as it is for the ...

After a three-year hiatus from solo work, the songwriter-producer Sampha, who in the meantime has been lending his skills to a few select artists (Drake, Solange, and Kanye West, to name a few), ...

You’ve probably heard Sampha Sisay’s voice before. You might have heard him provide backing vocals for Drake on “Too Much” or “The Motion” or for Solange on “Don’t Touch My Hair.” You might have heard ...

After years of being one of the most exciting forces in music, the weary and emotive piano man Sampha finally released his debut album Process this past winter. It's a tremendous work of art, and now ...

Today is the fifth anniversary of Process, the game-changing debut album from Sampha. Yes, you are old, but the good news is that to celebrate his album, Sampha has shared two songs that are probably ...

In the summer of 2015, I asked my doctor to examine my throat. I felt that I had a bump on the side of my neck; it felt like an obstruction I was acutely aware of, and sometimes caused shooting pains.

Sampha is enveloped by a cluster of monumental canvases dedicated to black life. It’s the morning after a sold-out show at the El Rey and the British singer wanted to see Kerry James Marshall’s ...

A few years ago, deep in the throes of creating his debut album, Sampha Sisay would regularly make trips back home to his quiet native South London suburb of Morden. Here, he’d enlist his friends and ...