I post less than a dozen times a year yet I’m coming to you with a lot of shame today as I realize it’s been AGES I haven’t shared an artist made in Belgium. Which is a disgrace, considering this is where I was born and raised! Not to mention that, since I moved abroad, I’ve found a new appreciation for music sung in my mother tongue: French. It fascinates me how I now crave this language I can’t hear in the streets anymore and how French songs bring me so much comfort as I create a new home away from home.
And a new track on rotation these days is EGO, by Belgian artist Naomi Aguilera, a brand new addition to the local scene. A few seconds in during my first listen, I quickly recognized Leo Fifty Five‘s signature groove and as it turns out, he produced the song. But what makes me come back to it, again and again, is definitely Naomi’s intoxicating tone, bottling all of her strengths and weaknesses at once. Which is exactly what you need for EGO, exploring “a universal feeling, sometimes tricky to accept”. You know, that co-dependent, dysfunctional relationship that you unfortunately keep going back to when you’re well aware you’re both hurting each other? It’s ok, no need to hide: a lot of us (and/or our friends) have been there. Oh, the lessons learned… But we move. And Naomi knows how to move on, with grace and talent.
While waiting for her debut EP Mosaïques to be expected this fall, she already opened up the doors of her visual world with a music video directed by her sister Belinda Aguilera. The moodboard honors her Spanish roots while the casting demonstrates that if the songstress might plead guilty from previously entertaining a little ego boost in her love life, she’s in fact one to rather put her family and friends on a pedestal and invited them join the fun, alongside collaborators from La Forestière, a Brussels-based platform dedicated to support and elevate local emerging artists through live shows. And God knows I love people who understand that lighting up someone else’s candle won’t make theirs any less bright, which only makes me hope even more that Naomi Aguilera will shine like a star in the near future, in Belgium and beyond.
Stalk Naomi.
