The Soul of Music: Sampa The Great returns to her roots

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This episode is part two of The Soul of Music—Overheard’s four-part series focusing on music, exploration, and Black history. Our guest this week is Sampa The Great, a Zambian-born rapper, singer, and songwriter. Sampa spent most of her childhood living in Botswana, and her music career took off in Australia; but when the pandemic hit, Sampa returned home to Zambia where she recorded her album As Above, So Below. This album sees Sampa shedding her mask and getting personal. Sampa is joined by Nat Geo Explorer and wildlife biologist Danielle Lee to discuss inspiration through history, the power of language, and mental health therapy through nature. For more information on this episode, visit natgeo.com/overheard. Want more? Learn more about Sampa The Great at her website sampathegreat.com. You can follow her on Twitter or Instagram @Sampa_the_Great. Learn more about Danielle Lee at her website about.me/DNLee. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram at @DNLee5. Also explore: Listen to an in-depth interview with Danielle Lee in the Overheard episode “The Wonders of Urban Wildlife.” Zambia is home to the impressive Victoria Falls. Learn how you can visit the waterfall in this Nat Geo article. If you like what you hear and want to support more content like this, please consider a National Geographic subscription. Go to natgeo.com/exploremore to subscribe today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.8	Hey there. I'm Kyrie Douglas. I'm a producer here at Overheard. And this is the second episode
0:40.8	of our four part series focusing on music, exploration and black history. It's called
0:46.3	the Soul of Music. And National Geographic Explorers will be sitting down with some of our
0:50.8	favorite musicians to discuss how history and the natural world inspires their art and
0:55.3	adventures. Today's guest is Sumpa Timba, better known by her stage name Sumpa the Great.
1:03.5	Sumpa is a Zambian foreign musician and she's blown up over the last few years.
1:08.4	Her song never forget what you'll hear soon was used in the trailer for the Marvel movie
1:13.2	Black Panther O'Connor Forever. Pop culture wise it doesn't get much bigger than that.
1:18.6	Sumpa's music has inspired by hip hop, rock and the traditional zombie and music of her only.
1:23.6	The most recent album is called As Above So Below. On that record Sumpa gets person
1:30.4	that wants her struggles, her successes and herself love.
1:34.0	For me you know as above So Below as within So Without has a lot of meanings it just means that
1:42.0	your outer world is a reflection of what's going on within you.
1:49.0	Sumpa says she didn't always feel like she could show off her inner personality.
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