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\u201cOne thing’s for sure, this girl isn’t getting the recognition she deserves…\u201d <\/b>The Greentea Peng fanclub is as active on social networks and hyperbole as anyone. And rightly so: everyone emerged dazed after watching Nah It Ain’t The Same<\/i>, the London singer’s latest music video released at the end of February. Hidden behind an extravagant look – that only the English know how to compose – she directs her jaded gaze towards the camera, takes a silver teapot and pours a trickle of steaming water. No time to work out what she\u2019s thinking, as we plunge into the embers of the joint she slips between her lips, before jumping into the black and white landscape of a postcard, a bowl of scarlet pomegranates, a deserted street. The climax of this music portfolio is the jazz club where the young woman finishes us off, transforming her uninhibited soul into unexpected Jamaican ska. Her mantra hits us where it hurts: “It’s so hard to be human<\/i>.” <\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Aria Wells doesn’t even know how many tattoos <\/b>cover her body. About fifty? A hundred? At the other end of the line, the young woman sometimes repeats our questions, as if to give herself time to think, punctuating her answers with a serious laugh or a completely rhetorical “You know what I mean? We learn that she was born in Bermondsey, south London, where she grew up. That she quickly adopted a nomadic lifestyle, moving between regions and schools, sometimes leaving the UK capital for Hastings or Mexico City. This range of places, settings and people forged her character. Little by little, the slightly zany teenage party girl cooled down as if the groove she now handles to perfection completed her quest for tranquillity. As if the Mayan greetings she embeds in the track Hu Man<\/i> (2020), satisfied her vital need to explore. Life as much as music, Aria Wells runs away from anguish and anger. She behaves like a nightclub face checker with everyone she meets. Between bursts of laughter on the phone, her credo turns into advice: “Master the energies you bring into your life,” she says.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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