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The Pirates Feat. Enya, Shola Ama, Naila Boss & Ishani
Why we feature this artist Several vocal histories inside You Should Really Know You Should Really Know brings Shola Ama’s singing, Naila Boss’ rap and Ishani’s supporting vocal into a production with a familiar Enya-derived atmosphere. The long artist credit …
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The story of The Pirates Feat. Enya, Shola Ama, Naila Boss & Ishani
Why we feature this artist
Several vocal histories inside You Should Really Know
You Should Really Know brings Shola Ama’s singing, Naila Boss’ rap and Ishani’s supporting vocal into a production with a familiar Enya-derived atmosphere. The long artist credit reflects different kinds of contribution to one recording. It should be heard as a constructed collaboration, with newly performed parts and earlier recorded material doing separate musical work.
The 2004 Pirates single
The release appeared in August 2004 through EMI and reached the British top ten. The original credits identify Shola Ama as vocalist, Naila Boss as rap vocalist and Ishani in the backing vocals. Man De Lev and Ryan Perera appear in the production alongside the Pirates name, with Samir Suddle contributing guitar.
Enya’s connection comes through the sampled musical material associated with Boadicea, which also formed part of Mario Winans’ I Don’t Wanna Know. The Pirates recording changes the perspective around that familiar sound, allowing the new vocal performances to occupy the foreground while the atmospheric association remains underneath.
The voices in the arrangement
Ama’s melodic delivery and Boss’ more percussive phrasing give the track different ways to address its emotional situation. The supporting vocal adds another layer without blurring those principal roles. The production keeps the background spacious enough for the contrast between singing and rapping to remain clear.
The single was issued in a concise form and a longer version, preserving the same shared performance at different lengths. Its interest lies in how those elements have been assembled: an earlier recording supplies atmosphere, the singers establish a new point of view, and the rap changes the pace of the exchange. The full credit makes that layered history visible.
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You Should Really Know
The EMI single combines the Pirates’ production, new vocal contributions and Enya-derived sampled material.