For her A COLORS SHOW performance, Zowie, who dropped her single, Project, on the platform late on Monday joins the other alumni including Xenia Manasseh, Bien, Karun, Maya Amolo and Lisa Oduor-Noah. She was also part of the writing camp for burgeoning and established songwriters, artists, and producers hosted by Spotify and COLORSxSTUDIOS in early October.

Speaking about her song, she said: “My song, Project, is basically about wanting your person around you. Or like, just being like: Come over. I want us to have this dream romantic relationship. 

“Like let’s just do this. I want this to be like some cliché thing. Like oh you know I want you around, you know I want that fantasy”

Zowie, who won an American Idols Golden Ticket after she auditioned in front of Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, experiments with R&B, indie-pop, and dance music, and says that before American Idol she didn’t know what she wanted to do music-wise. “ I just loved performing covers on YouTube.”

And afterwards, “that whole process and the fact that they said yes, it was kind of like a turning point for me where I was like, okay, this is what I really want to do. And I took their notes and everything and I’ve been implementing them all my life since.”

On her future ambitions: “I probably would like more people to relate to what I’m writing, or inspire more people with my writing.”

Zowie’s show marks the last of the performances from the Spotify and COLORSxSTUDIOS partnership, with all the singles available on Tantalizers, Spotify’s flagship Afro R&B playlist.

Against a green monochromatic background, Bien performs True Love, bearing down on vocals, as he waxes lyrical about finding true love.

Bien’s A COLORS SHOW performance is the fourth one and is more uptempo, but sticks to the theme of love present throughout the other three performances by Lisa, Xenia and Karun, all under Spotify’s flagship Afro R&B arm, Tantalizers.

All the singles released so far are partial to R&B, which is the foundation of this partnership between Spotify and COLORSxSTUDIOS.

Bien shares his observation on Kenyan R&B saying, “the (R&B) scene in Kenya is ever growing, evergreen and ever beautiful and I can’t wait to see what it holds.” His mesmerizing performance is now live, where listeners are bound to get chills, even as they wait for the album to drop.

Two more Kenyan artists will perform never before released singles, and fans should keep an eye out on Spotify Africa social pages for more information on the final two artists.