Grammy-nominated Nigerian singer and songwriter, Ayra Starr, has opened up about her struggle with writer’s block and how it affected her.
The ‘Rush’ crooner said she couldn’t write songs for about six months until she received the demo of her song ’21’ off her new album, ‘The Year I Turned 21,’ from a friend as a birthday present which opened her mind. She said in a viral podcast interview:
Still on album releases, Award-winning Nigerian music star, Yemi Eberechi Alade, has opened up on why she named her forthcoming album ‘Rebel Queen’.
Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos on Friday, the ‘Johnny’ crooner said she is a true rebel in words and action, and the body of work is a combination of her thoughts, melodies and truck load of nostalgia.
Yemi Alade also noted that she made the album because she got tired of the “monotony in genre and style” of Afrobeats music.
The songstress further disclosed that the 16-track album theme encompasses feminity, liberation and consciousness in life.
