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WE LEARNED TO BREATHE UNDERWATER
Artist: Sanele Ndaba/ Yuri Ndaba
We Learned to Breathe Underwater is a collection of ten slow-burning songs about emotional depth, quiet love, and the kind of survival that doesn't look heroic from the outside.
Inspired by the submerged intimacy of The Marías, this project explores what it means to feel deeply in a world that rewards lightness, speed, and emotional distance. These songs live in the moments between words - the pauses, the almosts, the silences that carry more weight than confessions.
The album moves like a descent: from surface-level longing into the darker, softer spaces of the heart, where pressure reshapes identity and vulnerability becomes a form of strength. Rather than chasing resolution, the songs allow feelings to exist fully - unresolved, tender, and honest.
Blending English and Spanish, warmth and melancholy, We Learned to Breathe Underwater is not about drowning - it's about adaptation. It's about learning to stay present in emotional depths without needing to escape them.
This project reflects Sanele Ndaba's ongoing exploration of inner life, softness, and emotional intelligence - where feeling deeply is not a weakness, but a way of knowing.
INSPIRED BY THE MARIAS