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SA award-winning singer Tyla features on Obama’s summer playlist

# South African Grammy Award-winning pop star Tyla’s song Jump has been included in former US president Barack Obama’s annual summer playlist. The song has more than 140-million streams on Spotify, and Tyla performed it at the BET Awards, where she received two honours. Other singers who landed on Obama’s playlist include Beyoncé’s Texas Hold ‘Em, Billie Eilish’s Chihiro, I Can’t Get No Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones, and Tommy Richman’s Million Dollar Baby. Obama has curated and shared his summer playlist almost every year since 2015.