


From there, it was like a positive virus that kept spreading every single minute of every day. “I posted a snippet of the song, went to bed and woke up to my manager (M3tro) having a ball about it.

“‘People’ went viral overnight,” Libianca tells Dazed. When a self-recorded video reminiscent of a Colours session (drop down mic and all) featuring her singing a stripped-back version of her latest single was released, the internet did its thing: 32 million streams and 700,000 TikTok videos later, the global hit led her to a record deal with 5K records and a worldwide audience demanding more of her dulcet-toned take on Afro-pop. Every now and then, TikTok brings us a song that warrants more than a viral dance routine: 22-year-old singer/songwriter Libianca’s “ People” is one of those.
