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  • Burna Boy craves collabo with Yossou N’dour, Angelique Kidjo

    Burna Boy craves collabo with Yossou N’dour, Angelique Kidjo

    Hip hop artiste Burna Boy has his eyes of singing with two African music greats. Taking to Twitter over the weekend, Burna Boy expressed his desire to sing with Yossou N’dour and Angelique Kidjo.

    “I’ve bin tryna do a song with Yossou N’dour but I can’t find my man anywhere,”  Burna Boy, whose single, ‘Rock Your Body’ is currently rocking the airwaves, wrote in a tweet on Saturday.

    “Bin trying for 2years now lol.”

    Yossou N’dour, a celebrated Senegalese musician. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine described him as, “perhaps the most famous singer alive” in Senegal and much of Africa. He was also Senegal’s Minister of Tourism from April 2012 to September 2013.

    Not long after that, he tweet his desire to sing with the Beninese Grammy singer, writing, “I been trying to work with Angelique Kidjo for ages too.”

  • Sola Allyson speaks on ‘collabo’ with Adekunle Gold

    Sola Allyson speaks on ‘collabo’ with Adekunle Gold

    One of Nigeria’s female indigenous singers, Sola Allyson, is currently working on her first collaboration with Adekunle Gold.
    An adaptation of Alujanjankijan, an old folk song, the new song is aimed at creating awareness in the need to have more time for the children.
    According to the singer, “Alujanjankijan, one of our old folk songs, is to help create awareness about creating more time for the children, not exclusively leaving them at the mercy of caregivers, nannies, and house-helps.
    “The song is also to help us not to give up on them even when they seem ‘bad.’ The song also infers on the need for parents to be strong and positive, not giving up on children who seemingly are not doing well because parenting is not an easy task, encouraging them that however difficult it seems, it is rewarding.”
    On why she decided to do the collaboration with Adekunle Gold, she said, “I chose to work with Adekunle Gold because his mode of delivery is similar to mine in terms of scale, melodic structure and presentation. His music combines elements of all the genres of our indigenous music, e.g. Fuji, Juju, Apala, etc, and delivers in a way that has a crossover effect on all classes of hearing, e.g. R&B, Soul, Hip-hop. Also, his lyrics are not vulgar and are safe for all audience. These are some similarities with my own music.”
    She revealed: “This is my first collaboration. And I am not doing it based on the fact that Adekunle is making waves now; I have got many offers from various artistes, both known and unknown, but I am not a person who is moved by just the popularity and commercial gain of music but the substance it has to offer to the society.”

  • JKL talks collabo with 2Baba, MI

    JKL talks collabo with 2Baba, MI

    Ghana-based Dancehall star, JKL4Real also known as Dr. Money, has revealed that he is currently working on collaborative efforts with two top Nigerian musicians – 2Baba and MI.

    He strongly believes that the time has come for African and Black Musicians to take the bull by the horns and impact mankind positively with their lyrical contents and vocal prowess.

    “My journey so far is impressive. My management is currently in a fruitful discussion with 2Baba for a remix of my single, Whatever. In the same vein, we are also in talks with MI, for a collabo on my fresh single – Chineke. In the next couple of weeks, we will be making official and categorical statements on these historic and laudable collaborative projects”, disclosed the widely travelled crooner.

    Also, JKL4Real and his team recently secured a mouth watering contract, which allows them to host a celebrity Karaoke Party every Friday night at the prestigious Vienna City Nite Club, in the heart of Accra.

    The entertainer, who was among the foreign stars that thrilled at the Independence Day Bowler Hats Bash (BHB) organised by online newspaper, Daylight.ng in Nigeria, on October 1, is billed to embark on a global music  tour that is expected to kick off from Malaysia.

    “My world tour kicks off in Malaysia, where I will also be attending the ASAM Awards. I will be in Uganda this December for the One World Xmas Festival. And in January, we will be jamming at New Days of Righteousness show in Jamaica. We are also performing at the Rebel Salute concert in Ghana by March, after which we will be storming Israel and Sweden respectively in June and July. 2017 is going to be a very busy year for us.”

  • Rexy Brown looks to more collabo

    Rexy Brown looks to more collabo

    Going acapella for the press that afternoon, it was evident that up and coming RnB singer, Rexy Brown has the niche to excel. But the light-skinned artiste says he his hoping that collaboration with established stars will help quicken his steps to stardom.

    Rexy Brown has no doubt that his recent collaboration with J. Martins on Hello My Baby has given a boost to his burgeoning career, even as he prepares for his next work titled Give it To Me.

    Not only did the singer record success with his previous single and shooting a video in South Africa, he is spotting for bigger challenges, noting that he is sufficiently equipped to face the odds.

    He is optimistic that apart from being able to sing diverse genres of music, his ability to speak in Yoruba, English and his native language, Igbo is an added advantage to his career.

    He said: “I’m into Rhythm and Blues, as well as Dancehall. I can switch to different genres of music at will. Besides, I sing in English, Yoruba and Igbo. I think this is my selling point. I recently worked with J Martins on a track titled Hello My Baby. The video of the song is currently in progress.”

  • Terry G to release Dagrin collabo

    Terry G to release Dagrin collabo

    As artistes troop out to pay tribute to late indigenous rapper Dagrin, who passed on five years ago, Akpako crooner, Terry G has said that he is not left out of the bandwagon. He recently revealed that he will be releasing a song he recorded with Dagrin before his demise.

    According to Terry G, Dagrin appeared to him in a dream to deliver a message to the world. Following the development, the Headies award winning singer, brand ambassador, and entrepreneur, has revealed that, he will be releasing their collaborative effort titled Can’t Stop on tomorrow.

    The father of one wrote on his Instagram page; “I remember we spoke two weeks ago in my dream, you sent me a message to deliver, which I will officially release April 30.”