. >> talking europe, presented by catherine nicholson. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ you are my yellow you are my greensic has no borders, shifting smoothly from cou -- from soul to blues to folk. >> ♪ down on my knees i'm begging you ♪ >> she has made six albums and they are rereleasing her album "royal." her name means joy and it matches her music. thank you for joining the show. let's start with this new record, this deluxe edition. you released the album at the beginning of 2020, when none of us knew what a scary strange year we would go through. that version was luminous, filled with love and hope to read how has it been modified or changed by what happened in between? ayo: it has been changed in a hopeful way. during covid, for me, it felt like a testing period. what am i going to do now? two months prior to the release of the record and we were supposed to go on tour. one of the good things about it was that i got to spend more time with my children and was able to write a lot more songs. some of them are on the new deluxe version. anchor: you added some extra tracks. one of them is, i will be r