{"id":38585,"date":"2025-07-02T17:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/jamaican-singer-lila-ike-announces-debut-album-romantic-with-masika\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:10:04","slug":"jamaican-singer-lila-ike-announces-debut-album-romantic-with-masika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/jamaican-singer-lila-ike-announces-debut-album-romantic-with-masika\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican Singer Lila Ik\u00e9 Announces Debut Album, &#8216;Romantic&#8217; With Masika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The rising reggae star puts her spin on a dancehall classic to introduce her first album, <em>Treasure Self Love<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSince 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lila-ike-new-song-true-love-1330531\/\">Lila Ik\u00e9<\/a>\u2019s releases like the single\u00a0 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/jamaica-greatest-songs-marley-popcaan-reggae-1390124\/koffee-toast-2019-1391311\/\">Where I\u2019m Coming From<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0 EP <em>The ExPerience<\/em>, and feature on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/samory-i-strength-review-1234884156\/\">Samory I<\/a>\u2019s \u201cOutside\u201d have shown her talent and promise as an emerging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/reggae\/\" id=\"auto-tag_reggae\" data-tag=\"reggae\">reggae<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dancehall\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dancehall\" data-tag=\"dancehall\">dancehall<\/a> star. Now, the Jamaican singer-songwriter is ready to step into the spotlight with her debut album, <em>Treasure Self Love<\/em>, due out August 22.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lila Ik\u00e9 - Romantic ft. Masicka (Official Video)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x3dE4mdUEUI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe announcement is accompanied by a new video for her latest single, \u201cRomantic,\u201d featuring another popular Jamaican upstart, dancehall star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/masicka-dancehall-afrobeats-influences-tour-1234980623\/\">Masicka<\/a>. Produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jamaica\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jamaica\" data-tag=\"jamaica\">Jamaica<\/a>\u2019s Dunw3ll and British-Ghanaian hitmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/juls-producer-afrobeats-future-1234776708\/\">Juls<\/a>, the upbeat track channels dancehall royalty Patra\u2019s 1994 classic \u201cRomantic Call.\u201d The icon herself blesses the song with a fiery, personalized intro and conclusion for Ik\u00e9, too. \u201cBig up Patra for coming on board as well, that was a full circle moment,\u201d Ik\u00e9 said in a statement. \u201c\u2018Romantic\u2019 is my way of paying homage to dancehall and, of course, the queens who made space for us \u2014 women like Patra, who taught us how to be bold, sensual, and unapologetic. I wanted to tap into that energy, which is very me anyways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIk\u00e9 has previously released the singles \u201cHe Loves Us Both\u201d ft. H.E.R., \u201cFry Plantain\u201d ft. Joey Bada$$ and \u201cToo Late to Lie,\u201d which will all be featured on Treasure Self Love. Last year, on \u201cHe Loves Us Both,\u201d Ik\u00e9 told Rolling Stone, \u201cI remember working on this song on my guitar and thinking it needs a feature with a really dope female artist as it reminded me of \u2018The Boy Is Mine\u2019 collaboration\u2026The first time I played this song for [H.E.R.], she immediately got in the booth and so effortlessly made it into the masterpiece it is today.\u201d In 2022, marking the 60th anniversary of Jamaican independence,\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u00a0recognized Ik\u00e9\u2019s \u201cWhere I\u2019m Coming From\u201d as one of the songs that represent the country\u2019s musical evolution.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lila-ike-debut-album-treasure-self-love-romantic-masika-1235377164\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rising reggae star puts her spin on a dancehall classic to introduce her first album, Treasure Self Love Since 2019, Lila Ik\u00e9\u2019s releases&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}