DJ SAvvy, a Canadian UrbanKiz artist, has released “Esperança,” a ghetto zouk and soft urban track featuring Mozambican singer Tamyris Moiane. The song is the centrepiece of SAvvy’s Women’s Day album of the same name, a project created with a clear and deliberate purpose: to shine a light on
the women of the kizomba scene.
Women in kizomba are underrepresented, underpaid, and undervalued. As artists, DJs, and creatives, their contributions to the scene are too often overlooked. The Esperança album was SAvvy’s response to that reality, a body of work built entirely around female artists, created to celebrate their power and champion their right to equal recognition, equal pay, and equal respect within the scene.
SAvvy wrote the lyrics to “Esperança” from a deeply personal place. The song speaks to the feeling of knowing someone before you have met them, recognizing a person by their energy and their essence, and trusting that when the moment comes, you will know. It is a song about hope for love
that has not yet arrived, and the quiet certainty that it will.
For SAvvy, that hope extends beyond the song. As a Canadian UrbanKiz DJ who has performed across 10 countries, her mission on and off the dance floor has always been to be a light for other women in the scene, to pave the way, to inspire, and to prove that there is a better future for women
in kizomba.
