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- Kehlani is sharing a throwback clip of herself performing Mariah Carey’s “Hero” as she celebrates her first collaboration with the music icon
- The R&B star joined the Songbird Supreme and Shenseea for Carey’s newest single “Sugar Candy,” which arrived on Friday, June 25
- “The earliest video of me singing and first track i ever discovered was ‘Hero’ and everyone who is aware of me is aware of that is one among my heroes,” Kehlani wrote on Instagram
Kehlani was as soon as singing “Hero.” Now, she shares a track with one among her personal.
The R&B star, 30, teamed up with Mariah Carey and Shenseea for Carey’s newest single “Sugar Candy,” launched on Friday, July 25. And as she revealed on Instagram, it is one thing of a full-circle second as a longtime Carey listener — and she or he’s received the video to again it up!
“no one converse to me i received a track with the one and solely @mariahcarey 🦋,” Kehlani wrote in a caption saying the track’s launch. “the earliest video of me singing and first track i ever discovered was ‘Hero’ and everyone who is aware of me is aware of that is one among my heroes.”
The “Folded” singer continued, calling Carey “the definition of an icon.”
“to have given us a lot, for DECADES & by no means fail to impress us by way of all of the twists and turns music makes,” she added. “i’m so honored and immensely grateful. there actually aren’t any phrases. and Shenseea you’re an absolute BAD ASS who is true in your strategy to legendary standing your self. i’m comfortable man. #SUGARSWEET 🐑 LAMBS WE ARE SO UP 🐑”
After sharing her pleasure, Kehlani then reposted a clip to her Instagram Tales of herself as a younger lady singing the 1993 Carey basic.
Shenseea, 28, shared her personal response to the collaboration on X, writing “I can not consider I’ve a track with thee @MariahCarey 💕🐉 WTF!”
Earlier than the track’s launch, the three musicians additionally appeared in a TikTok collectively singing alongside to the brand new monitor, which marks the second single off Carey’s forthcoming LP, Right here For It All.
Carey introduced her sixteenth studio album earlier this week, following the discharge of her June single, “Sort Harmful.” It arrives on Sept. 26 and, as she informed Apple Music’s Zane Lowe and Ebro Darden, is anticipated to incorporate perception into “who I’m at the moment, and the final 10 years, the final 14 years.”
Right here For It All will arrive seven years after Carey’s final studio album, Warning, which featured collaborations with Slick Rick, Blood Orange and others.
Whereas the “Hero” singer did not need “to inform an excessive amount of concerning the new album” in her June interview with Apple Music, she teased the album with a lyric from her 2005 single “It is Like That”: “It is an important day / Mimi’s emancipation.”
“What’s subsequent? The album popping out. I don’t wanna inform an excessive amount of about it as a result of I simply don’t wish to reveal the entire thing,” she mentioned, confirming it was “completed” and hinting at some “Mariah ballads.”
Forward of the discharge of her new single, Carey additionally appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Stay on Thursday, July 24 and opened up concerning the promise Rihanna made after Carey signed her breast on the ultimate present of her Christmas Time Tour final December in Brooklyn.
Talking with visitor host Fortune Feimster, Carey referred to as it a “distinctive second” and revealed that Rihanna “mentioned she was going to” get the signature tattooed.