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CairoScene
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Bayou & Tawsen Link Up on Summer R&B Anthem ‘Kayani'
Egyptian-Saudi artist Bayou returns with 'Kayani', an R&B track featuring Tawsen. The single drops alongside a coastal video and kicks off Bayou's five-city summer tour. Jul 07, 2025 Fresh off the viral success of 'Ya Zeina', Bayou drops 'Kayani' , a breezy Arabic R&B single featuring rising Moroccan artist Tawsen. Produced by Jean Bleu (who has worked with Drake and Marwan Pablo) with additional touches by Grammy-winning producer Motif Alumni (Doja Cat, Don Toliver), 'Kayani' is tailored for summer: smooth, rhythmic, and flirtatiously light on its feet. Opening with the line 'ليلي ونهاري بتمشى لأخر افكاري' ('Day and night, I walk all the way to the edge of my thoughts'), Bayou leans into a melodic coolness that's quickly becoming his signature. Tawsen, known for his genre-blurring French-Arabic delivery, blends seamlessly into the track's sun-drenched tempo. Shot on Egypt's North Coast, the music video pulls inspiration from early-2000s reggaeton with sunlit scenes, loose choreography, and subtle surrealism. The release also marks the start of Bayou's summer tour, hitting Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Jeddah, and Riyadh between July 8th and the 18th.
CairoScene
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Bayou Teams Up with Saudi Rapper DJmubarak on Love Anthem ‘Ya Zeina'
The track, an intricate blend of Egyptian R&B and Khaleeji sounds, explores the complexities of lovers caught in limbo. May 13, 2025 Shortly after dropping his debut EP 'Never at Home' back in November 2024, Egyptian R&B artist Bayou went musically off-grid for a while, only teasing fans with cryptic TikTok videos potentially hinting at new music in the works. Now, Bayou is finally unveiling what he's been cooking in the studio over the past six months: a new track, titled 'Ya Zeina', featuring the rising Saudi rapper DJmubarak. For Bayou, 'Ya Zeina' marks the beginning of a new chapter, in which he tries to embrace different sounds outside of his sonic peripheries. Although the track is unmistakably Bayou at its core, imbued with his signature Egyptian R&B sound that is quite soft at the edges, retailing the story of lovers caught in limbo, DJmubarak's commanding bars add a subtle and unexpected Khaleeji rhythm to the mix. The music video for 'Ya Zeina' is a surrealist dream sequence directed by Yan Bokhanovich, aka YANCHI, who previously worked with the likes of Virgil Abloh, Mike Will Made It, and ZHU. Shot in Sharjah, the video demonstrates cinematic visuals, following Bayou and DJmubarak as they arrive at a remote location, where Bayou gets pulled into a parallel world after spotting a mysterious muse, aptly his lover, whom he can't quite reach.
