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Lalah Hathaway

Lalah Hathaway has a new album coming this fall.

The Grammy-winning singer has announced her ninth LP, Made In Chicago, will arrive Oct. 1 via Hathaway Entertainment/SRG-ILS, in partnership with Virgin Records.

Made In Chicago will include the lead single, “47th Street,” featuring Chicagoan poet J. Ivy. The soulful track, which Hathaway co-produced with Phil Beaudreau, takes a beautiful stroll through the street where her father and his family lived. The song not only honors Hathaway’s lineage but is also rooted in Black history, offering a nuanced story of the Great Migration from the South to the Windy City.

Ivy narrates the history, recalling how “the South had an exodus” and “they headed North down to lay down their roots,” while Hathaway memorializes her father and her grandfather, Hosea, singing: “If only these streets could talk / That’s where my daddy laid his hat down / Sweet Hosea wore the crown.”