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DUBAI: French Algerian singer Lolo Zouai and Australian record producer Kito announced their upcoming collaborative track “Sticky” on social media on Saturday.

They posted: “This is getting sticky, out everywhere next Friday, July 21!”

Kito also took to TikTok to share a snippet from the drum and bass track.

Earlier this year, Zouai went on the much-lauded Play Girl tour.

“I think it’s time that we party and dance. It’s going to be amazing,” she posted on Instagram when her tour was first announced in November. “I’m so excited to reunite with all my Lo-riders & Playgirls around the world and sing together next year.”

The music sensation’s tour started on March 8 in London. She has since visited cities in the US, France, Canada, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands on a tour that features more than 30 shows.

Zouai, who divides her time between Brooklyn and Los Angeles, might also be coming to the Middle East. After fans asked the star to visit the Arab world, she commented on her post, saying: “I see you Asia, Australia, MENA and South America! Stay tuned.”

“Play Girl,” which features 13 songs, is Zouai’s second album.

After the album’s release in October, the singer was featured on a billboard in New York City’s Times Square.

She shared a video of herself posing in front of the billboard on social media, saying: “I always said that one day I would be on a billboard in Times Square. Today is that day.

“Manifestation and hard work works,” she added.

Zouai garnered support from her fans, including British hitmaker Dua Lipa, who shared a picture of the album’s cover image on her Instagram stories and wrote: “Lolo’s new album is out! Go streaaaam! So proud of you playgirl.”

Zouai also took to Instagram to celebrate one of her hit songs, “Desert Rose.”

She said on Instagram, referring to the track that celebrates her North African roots: “Five years ago, I released this career-defining song independently. I didn’t realize the impact it would have but I’m so happy that I chose to tell my story.”

The singer, who was born Laureen Zouai in France to a French mother and an Algerian father and relocated to San Francisco with her family when she was three months old, wrote the song as a love letter to her Algerian family.