Sondae is entering a new era, one that feels intimate, courageous, and beautifully human. The Brighton-based indie/R&B artist has long been known for combining worship influences with sleek production and soulful R&B textures, but his new album BOY, out December 12 via Wings Music Group, marks a personal and spiritual change. With over 250 million lifetime streams and a global audience growing at an almost unstoppable pace, Sondae has carved out a rare space where contemporary R&B meets faith, identity, and cultural storytelling. Now, he’s ready to take that world even further.
BOY is a 12-track coming-of-age journey, but not in the nostalgic, teenage-daydream kind of way. Instead, it’s the sound of a man learning how to carry more while surrendering more. “BOY is the perpetual motion of a temporary phase,” Sondae shares. “I’m getting married, picking up new responsibilities, burdens got slightly heavier, but I must remain dependent on God, just like a child.”
But BOY doesn’t just explore Sondae’s personal evolution; it carries the weight of family inheritance. He reflects on his father’s story, the man who shaped his understanding of manhood. “He lost his father at 15 and had to become the man of the house overnight,” Sondae says. Running the family business, raising seven siblings, putting dreams on pause until responsibility allowed room—these are the legacies Sondae grew up watching. “He raised me to be hyper-independent, hyper-decisive,” he explains. Yet even in that strength, his father discovered something deeper: “Only later did he realise it was the Lord who held him all along. Now he teaches me a new lesson: ‘no matter how much of a man you become, to enter heaven, you must remain a boy at heart.’”
That tension—maturity and softness, strength and surrender echoes through the entire record.
Sonically, BOY lives at the intersection of rich R&B tones, sleek rhythms, and spiritually charged emotion. It slips between high-energy moments and hushed introspection, always anchored by the storytelling that has become Sondae’s signature. The standout singles already released—“SANCTIFY ME LORD, AGAIN,” “ONLY WHAT GOD CAN GIVE,” and most recently “LOVER” offer a glimpse of how deeply personal this era is for him. Where his 2023 project Diary Entry wrestled with questions of identity and belonging, BOY looks at what happens when youthful dreams collide with adult responsibility, and how faith becomes the thread that ties it all together.
The album’s focus track, “YOURS” featuring SIV, captures that theme beautifully, building a sonic bridge between independence and devotion. Across the full tracklist—including collaborations with Ochae, Leon Dramis, and Crystal Mills—Sondae expands the emotional universe he’s been constructing since his earliest releases.
Behind the scenes, he remains the multi-instrumentalist, producer, and storyteller fans admire—essentially a one-man creative ecosystem. His DIY ethos runs through everything: songwriting, production, visuals. Born in Cape Verde, raised in Portugal, and now rooted in Brighton, Sondae carries a multicultural identity that naturally spills into his sound. R&B, soul, jazz, Bossa Nova, House, Afro rhythms, contemporary gospel—it’s all there, woven together in a way that feels effortless and intentional. His visuals remain a vital extension of that world, translating the emotional tone of his music into something you can see and feel.
With 250 million streams and a social footprint of more than 800k, Sondae is already a part of the future of faith-led R&B in a way few artists of his generation have. But BOY feels like the moment he steps fully into himself—into the man he’s becoming, the child he’s learning to hold onto, and the artist he’s always been.
BOY arrives on December 12 via Wings Music Group, available on all platforms.
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