Ultra Naté is "Unbreakable" with huge new single!
Sunday 5th November 2023
Release date: Out now Label: BluFire / Peace Bisquit
HUGE SUPPORT ACROSS RADIO:
BBC RADIO 2 (RYLAN, CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN, SARA COX, VERNAN KAYE, DJ SPOONY, ZOE BALL, SCOTT MILLS, OWAIN WYN EVANS, JEREMY VINE), GAYDIO, SELECTED RADIO, HITS RADIO PRIDE (PRIORITY PLAY), UTOPIA (SIRIUS XM), FUN RADIO, RADIO FG AND MORE…
If there’s one thing Ultra Naté knows how to write, it’s an anthem for the ages. 25 years ago ‘Free’ captured the world’s imagination; a quarter century on the iconic artist has done it again, this time with new single, UNBREAKABLE.
Seized upon by the world’s biggest radio stations including BBC Radio 2 in the UK and Sirius XM’s new Utopia channel in the States, UNBREAKABLE was written by Ultra with the queer community specifically in mind. Speaking to presenters Paris Munro and Dave Cooper from UK station GAYDIO earlier this month, Ultra called UNBREAKABLE a “really direct message” and took the opportunity to share the reasons for writing the song and underline her well documented support for the LGBTQIA+ community.
“I open my social apps and I’m seeing, like everyone else is seeing, these attacks, this vitriol, just a vicious energy that’s going on out there. It really breaks my heart because the LGBTQIA+ community has always been a very special community to me. They’ve always been very supportive of my music, of me as an artist. I’ve always been an ally and I’ve always felt that they’ve given me a safe space as a woman of colour to experience what my creative art was going to be. Whatever that looked like, it was always accepted and appreciated. So I’ve always had this symbiotic relationship with the (LGBTQIA+) community.
“Any kind of injustice, to anyone, I’m not feeling that, I’m not going to stand for that, and I’m always going to use my platform and lend my voice. I’ve supported many initiatives in the LGBTQ space to bring awareness and funding through various projects over the years, through featuring on the album, Red Hot and Free (benefitting The Trevor Project ; The Ally Coalition and SAGE for the Red Hot Organization); Life Beat, and recently with the Top 10 song and video Fierce (a collaboration with trans activists and celebrities, Angelica Ross and Mila Jam benefiting the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) The Marsha P. Johnson Institute and the GLAAD Transgender Media Program). I really think it’s not just about what you say but what you do that matters, but I feel I’m always very vocal about it, always speaking on it, and always supporting the culture.”
Co-produced with regular collaborators Pirahnahead and John ‘J-C’ Carr, soaked in soaring strings, triumphant percussion, warm piano runs, and held together by her instantly recognisable vocal, the single is a beautiful and defiant call to arms from Ultra. At a time when minority communities are increasingly under attack, when the world seems bleak, and hope is fading, Ultra breaks through like strong sunshine, reminding us without a shadow of a doubt – together, we are UNBREAKABLE.
ULTRA NATÉ ‘UNBREAKABLE’ IS OUT NOW VIA BLUFIRE / PEACE BISQUIT
Craig & ScottPosted by Craig Jones