Toronto R&B artist, songwriter & Multi-instrumentalist Divine Lightbody shares her smooth, sultry new single “Homies” today. “Homies” is a light-hearted take on being in a situationship, Divine’s effortless, sensual vocals and confessional lyrics glide through its heavenly accompanied piano melody. Through authentic storytelling and amazing instrumentation on the production, Divine Lightbody aims to take the genre back to its raw form.
Written by Divine Lightbody and produced by Savvan (Luna Elle, musical direction for YK Osiris), mixed and mastered by adamjosh (Grammy (Spellemanprise) nominated and Juno winning) “Homies” is an intimate collaboration with Divine’s tender vocals caressing the melody, letting her partner know “You, and me Body to body, When you hold me like that, We can never be homies, that’s that”.
“You know all my songs are based on a true story,” Divine Lightbody says. “Homies” is a song about wanting to be more than just friends with that someone you’ve had your eyes on, because low key they make you feel a certain way when you’re with them. It’s about the inner workings of the infamous ‘situationship’. This song is written about those times when a situationship is unavoidable with someone that wants a relationship, and feels that the physical and emotional connection is too strong to stay just friends. This song invites that person to explore what a real relationship would look like between them.”- Divine
“Homies” is the beginning of this musical journey for Divine where musical instrumentation and heavenly vocals take center stage with this release and upcoming releases.
As a highly skilled songwriter and classically trained musician. Divine Lightbody has developed an acumen for an arrestingly honest style of self-reflection that’s the mark of music’s elite. With a trained eye for capturing small details, she crafts songs that forfeit polished stories for authentic ones. It’s this carefully refined formula for songwriting that caught the attention of Grammy Award-winning producer Matthew Burnett and sparked collaboration between the two. Recently writing Luna Elle’s latest single “Forgetting You”. In addition to singing the Canadian and US national anthems for the Toronto Blue Jays and the Toronto Raptors 905 teams; Divine was one of the top finalists for the CTV nationally televised tv show “The Launch”.
During a moment where all eyes are on R&B coming from Toronto, Divine Lightbody is doing more than just joining a talented group of artists rewriting the rules of the genre – she’s leading the pack in her own right. Her goal is validation: to advocate for bringing back musicality to the genre, the value of authentic, collectively held stories which ultimately become the ingredients of reclamation and resilience.
