The Soundcheck iRadio Network adds Swedish recording artist Seinabo Sey to both The Soundcheck and Womans World Radio stations.
Seinabo Sey was born in Södermalm, Stockholm, on 7 October 1990, she is of both Swedish andGambian ancestry.[3] She moved to Halmstad, Sweden, at the age of eight, and attended Östergårdsskolans music program for musically gifted teenagers.[4]
Sey was inspired musically by artists such as Alicia Keys and Beyoncé early on in life. She grew up in Halmstad, Sweden, surrounded by artistry and creativity, her father Maudo Sey was a renowned musician in The Gambia and Senegal, West Africa. In an interview, Sey recalled being nine years old and watching MTV, leading her to become obsessed with music and singing. Sey had academic aspirations and wanted to study at Yale as an adolescent, being inspired by watching Gilmore Girls, and took academic steps towards that dream, enrolling in a International Baccalaureate program in Halmstad, Sweden, although at the age of 16 she ended up changing course, moving to Stockholm to attend and later graduate from Fryshusets esthetics program with a concentration in soul music. [5]
In an interview Sey noted: “I was really academically tracked… I loved to sing but I could never fathom singing by myself. I tried to push away the whole music dream and thought I had to do something more in line with that, like becoming a lawyer or something, until I was around sixteen. But then I realised I couldn’t really live in that small town so I moved to Stockholm and started music school”