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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nAfter nearly three years at the Grill, Acantha was headhunted for Manhattan\u2019s renowned cabaret, The Box, where she became the club\u2019s first female MC \u2014 a role that ultimately catapulted her to London to open the UK\u2019s sister club. There, she was able to put together her band, write her own music, and start polishing her sound, evolving her voice into the mesmerizing, full-bodied instrument that American Songwriter has compared to the venerable vocal flutter of Aretha Franklin. \u201cWhen I started making the music I wanted to make\u2026 there was no second thought, no confusion,\u201d says Acantha. \u201cI knew exactly what I wanted to do, exactly what I wanted to say\u2026 and I couldn\u2019t have done that before now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That newfound musical confidence shines through on her 2021 EP debut, Sugar Woman, which Soul Tracks selected as their featured album of the month upon its August release. As Acantha Lang blends Stax-inspired funk with Southern blues, she tells highly personal tales atop spirited, shimmering grooves. Acantha\u2019s storytelling style harkens to age-old blues traditions while grounding itself in contemporary themes, delivering head-on lyrical attacks on fake news (the tell-all \u201cHe Said\/She Said\u201d), odes to motherly love in the wake of Katrina\u2019s disaster (the gripping \u201cLois Lang\u201d), and celebrations of Black strength and womanhood with confidence and pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/sub><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Acantha Lang\u2019s growth has been slow but sure: a whirlwind journey from humble beginnings to a steadily burgeoning career songwriting for the GRAMMY-nominated Robert Randolph, writing with multi-platinum songwriter Kiris Houston (Disciples, Kylie Minogue, Little Mix) and Bruno Major, and earning endorsements from legends like Joe Bonamassa, Robert Elms, and noted tastemaker Craig Charles (BBC 6Music \/ BBC Radio 2) who distinguished Acantha as \u201cbrilliant\u2026 an independent artist destined for world domination\u201d in a recent interview for Blues & Soul Magazine. Acantha\u2019s rousing \u201cHe Said\/She Said\u201d appears on his recently released compilation album, The Craig Charles Trunk Of Funk Vol. 2, where he notes that it\u2019s a track that \u201c\u2026will blow the cobwebs out of your eardrums and leave you breathless and eager for more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Acantha has built a dedicated legion of fans online through her \u201cStanding On The Shoulders Of\u2026\u201d series<\/a> (currently over 1 million cumulative views across Instagram, YouTube and TikTok) in which she covers soul legends of years past, tapping into the innate rhythms of jukebox favorites and teasing out all-new moments of wonder. Her exceptional take on the classic, \u201cI Wish I Knew How I Would Feel To Be Free,\u201d ultimately landed her a recent McDonald\u2019s TV spot<\/a> in Europe thanks to her smooth, straight-tone with roughed-up edges (the perfect Nina Simone vocal stand-in). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Armed with passion, a unique perspective, and a voice that stops people in their tracks, Acantha Lang\u2019s full-length debut (coming in 2022) is destined to propel her from an undiscovered gem into the pantheon of modern soul greats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unlike many Southern soul singers who earned their wings singing from the pews of their local church, Acantha Lang\u2019s musical accomplishments were born of pure vocal talent and self-determination. Though raised in New Orleans, Lang didn\u2019t find her voice until she stumbled into the good graces of New York\u2019s most accomplished R&B session musicians \u2014 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[429,428,297],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GoKbaerco-2.5-X-3.0-ADV-Camille-Vegan-Crossbody-Bag3R.png\")
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