Geneva AM hopes to launch next music project in 2027

Geneva AM, who just took home her first Taite Award, says she’d like her next project to come out in 2027.

“Whether or not that happens is up to the project and how that goes… I just want it to be good,” says AM.

While her album Pikipiki jumped around different genres and sounds, listeners can expect a new approach from AM as she plans the body of work to follow a succinct line.

“A line through it doesn’t have to be exactly the same, but you can listen to it from start to finish or individual songs at random and they all meld together well,” says AM.

After her win at the Taite Music Awards, where AM took home the Auckland Live Independent Debut award, she’s had some local artists reach out to collaborate.

While collaborations are yet to be confirmed, fans can expect the project to be heavily influenced by her youth.

“So, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I was like as a teenager, and I was actually quite a good kid, but I had a lot of friends who had very difficult upbringings or home lives and we all kind of came together…

[We’d] just be growing up in these spaces outside of our home lives and coming together and causing a little bit of trouble.”

She also has a good understanding of youth as a mentor and mother.

AM teaches one on one singing classes at a local Waiheke school, a process which reminds her of her adolescence.

“It’s just amazing seeing these teenagers now and just being like, ‘was I like this?”

Youth has been a driving inspiration for AM for quite some time, especially after she entered motherhood.

AM credits her child as part of the reason she became a musician in the first place.

“I’d practice when I was singing to him as a baby, and then kind of remembering all of these traditional songs, which I added to [Pikipiki],” says AM.

Fans can stay up to date with AM through her Instagram and Substack.

AM’s next show is today at Kāhui St David’s. The event, hosted by Uptown Local Voices, is free and begins at 5:00 p.m.

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