A conversation about identity, influence and the freedom to make music without borders.

What does it mean to belong to a sound when you have been shaped by several worlds?

For LEEDA, the answer is not to choose one.

Raised in Germany, influenced by New York’s underground club culture and now based in London, the DJ and emerging producer has built her musical identity across borders. South Africa occupies a particularly important place in that story, not simply as an influence on her sound but as part of the cultural connection that continues to inform the way she understands house music.

That is the space where “Feel The Love” – her new single with Prima enters the picture. Rather than treating the new single as another release in an increasingly crowded dance landscape, it is better understood as a snapshot of where LEEDA is right now: between cities, cultures and influences, taking what resonates and leaving room for something of her own to emerge.

Her sound moves through Deep House, Afro House, Afro Tech and soulful rhythms, but the interesting part is what sits underneath those labels. There is a clear fascination with music that moves people emotionally as much as physically, the kind of record that can soundtrack a late-night dancefloor and still mean something when the room goes quiet.

That instinct may explain why South Africa resonates so strongly within her musical world. House music has long demonstrated its ability to travel—to leave one city, cross an ocean and become something new in another place without losing the feeling that made it powerful in the first place. LEEDA is drawn to that exchange.

It is also why her move deeper into production feels significant. DJing allows an artist to interpret music; producing asks them to reveal something. For LEEDA, that process has become an increasingly important part of figuring out what is hers.

Among the artists who have helped shape that perspective are Manoo, Culoe De Song and Da Capo. Their influence sits alongside everything LEEDA has absorbed from the places she has lived, travelled through and listened in. The result is less a formula than a constantly evolving musical conversation.

The early chapters of that production journey include a collaboration with Gifted23 on Breathe, released through FOMP, and Zulu Mageba on Twende, released through DM.Recordings. She has also worked with Ed-Ward across multiple unreleased projects. These collaborations have given her space to experiment, learn and discover what happens when her instincts meet another artist’s.

“Feel The Love” sits within that transition. It is part of the gradual shift from being the person behind the decks to becoming an artist with an increasingly defined voice in the studio.

And perhaps that is what makes LEEDA interesting now. She is not attempting to sound like Germany, New York, London or South Africa. She is absorbing all of them and allowing the collision to become part of the music.

That instinct for cultural exchange extends beyond the studio.

That philosophy extends beyond her own records. LEEDA is also the founder and curator of Blend, a London-based platform celebrating Deep House and Afro House while creating a space for artists and communities to connect through music. It gives her another way to explore the culture surrounding the sounds she loves—not just as a performer, but as someone interested in bringing people together around them.

There is something quietly radical about that idea in an era when music is so easily divided into scenes and algorithms. LEEDA seems more interested in the spaces between them.

With “Feel The Love,” that openness becomes music. And as LEEDA continues developing as a producer, the ambition is clear: to collaborate with artists she respects, keep exploring the cultures that have shaped her and arrive at a sound that could only have come from her.

Because perhaps the most compelling thing about LEEDA is not where she is from, but what she is doing with everywhere she has been.

“Feel The Love” is another step in that journey—a meeting point between the dancefloor and the feeling, between the worlds that shaped her and the sound she is still discovering.

And somewhere in that meeting point, LEEDA is beginning to sound like herself.