{"id":2460268,"date":"2026-06-15T14:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2460268"},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:23:17","slug":"ayra-starr-releases-new-single-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ayra-starr-releases-new-single-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayra Starr Releases New Single &#8216;Tornado&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Two-time Grammy-nominated Afrobeats artist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/genre\/ayra-starr\/\"><strong>Ayra Starr<\/strong><\/a> has released her new single \u201cTornado.\u201d The track, out now via Mavin Records and Republic Records, will appear on her upcoming third studio album, <i>Starrgirl<\/i>, which is set for release on August 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTornado\u201d was produced by Skillies, Shizzi, and RiotUSA. Starr also shared the official music video for the single, which follows a week in which she debuted the song during her Tiny Desk performance. The album is available to pre-save now, with vinyl pre-orders also open ahead of its August release.<\/p>\n<p>The new song follows \u201cWhere Do We Go,\u201d which Starr performed during a recent appearance on <i>The Jennifer Hudson Show<\/i>. The single has earned more than 1.3 billion streams worldwide across all platforms since its release and was followed by a remix with Peggy Gou. Starr\u2019s forthcoming <i>Starrgirl<\/i> album marks her next full-length project after <i>19 &amp; Dangerous<\/i>, the debut album that introduced her to a wider international audience.<\/p>\n<p>Starr\u2019s 2025 included several milestones across awards and streaming. Her single \u201cRush\u201d passed 500 million Spotify plays, making her the first African female artist to have two songs reach that mark on the platform. She received a Grammy nomination for Best African Music Performance for \u201cGimme Dat,\u201d her collaboration with Wizkid, at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards. Starr also won two MOBO Awards and became the first female artist in 16 years to win Best African Music Act, and she received her first BET Award for Best International Act.\n<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ayrastarr.lnk.to\/tornadoWE?utm_campaign=products&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=udiscovermusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Listen to \u201cTornado\u201d here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!--US \/ UK English--><\/p>\n<p><!--mvp-post-tags--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.udiscovermusic.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time Grammy-nominated Afrobeats artist Ayra Starr has released her new single \u201cTornado.\u201d The track, out now via Mavin Records and Republic Records, will appear on her upcoming third studio album, Starrgirl, which is set for release on August 14. \u201cTornado\u201d was produced by Skillies, Shizzi, and RiotUSA. Starr also shared the official music video for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2460269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[393772,363655,21937,32469,483909],"class_list":["post-2460268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-afrobeat","tag-ayra-starr","tag-dance","tag-electronic","tag-tornado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ayra-Starr-Releases-New-Single-Tornado.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460270,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460268\/revisions\/2460270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2460269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}