Behind the Scenes of Tyla’s BBMAs Performance | Billboard Music Awards 2024

A behind-the-scenes look at Tyla’s BBMAs performance for the 2024 Billboard Music Awards.

Richard Godfrey:
The building we’re sitting in the pub, the Counting House, is 500 years old, and we’re right in the heart of London, in the Old City of London. And the good thing is the pub has been renovated in that time, and so it’s in pristine condition and ready to go for this amazing music shoot for Billboard.

Tanisha Scott:
The creative for this is we are bringing a true, Amapiano party into a true, authentic English pub.

Lee-Ché:
Amapiano is a South African dance and music genre. And I say “dance” because with the music, there’s movement that comes with it, and it’s very innate and very connected to our culture.

James Barnes:
Shooting on five cameras. So we have a Steadicam, we have a tower cam, we have handhelds, all to get all the best angles all at once at the same time. But the one thing that maintains is the feeling of it being alive, certainly the vocal.

Tanisha Scott:
I absolutely love working with Tyla. She’s a global superstar right there in the making.

Lee-Ché:
In rehearsal, she’s very much softer and lighter when it comes to the moment, which is like a moment like right now, there’s something that switches on where, in her eyes, in her body, in the language that she produces with her body, it sounds on camera. It’s something that’s captivating. And I get captivated still to this day.