Temilade Openiyi, Tems, is a force and talent in the music industry – with no album, she has won multiple awards and international recognition. This year alone she was recognized by Billboard in Billboard Women in Music.
It is a popular culture for artists to release an album in less than two years of gaining recognition, but that wasn’t the case for Tems. She has two EPs; “For Broken Ears” and “If Orange Was A Place.”
Tems recently featured on South African rising star, Tyla’s album “Tyla” in the song No. 1.
This year the world is ready to experience a new side of Tems on her album, whenever it drops.
In an interview with Pulse Nigeria, Bob Hearts Abishola star, Folake Olowofoyeku speaks on her first love music, her time in Hollywood, our background and her love for her fatherland.
Folake, the lead actress for CBS sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola, is an award winning Hollywood actress. She left the country at 18 after multiple attempts to study at University of Lagos, Nigeria (Unilag) to the city of hopes and dreams – New York.
Born to a prominent Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Babatunji Olowofoyeku, she was destined for another path but instead chose entertainment or so you will think. While in university she studies Economics for a while but has fate will have it, she ended up graduating with Theatre.
Her father was the original pianist in the family so in a way it had an impact in the direction her life will go, she once saved up from to buy bass and thought herself how to play. These events and moment took her top the point she played with David Bowe and released few tracks of hers – Ehen Ehen Okay Okay and Melanin No Ni included.
The part of the story most readers will be familiar with, her Hollywood journey came moments after her musical heights with, David Bowe but Hollywood fame is not stopping her. Culture, Arts, Love and many more is starring her back to music as she plan to release her new single which drops in May.
This upcoming track will be the birth of a new genre, “Afrojoy.”
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Not really what you want to hear, but it’s true… Our Big Wiz recently announced he isn’t an Afrobeats artiste anymore. He claims to have transcended beyond the label, Afrobeats.
Afrobeats, a music genre mostly associated with Africans, is the modern version of music legend Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat artiste. The sound, Afrobeats, gained global recognition in the past few years and most international music bodies like the Grammys have created a spot for Afrobeats in their awards. Even Billboard has added a category for Afrobeats in its charts.
Via his official Instagram account, @wizkidayo, he spent the past two days he’s more than one sound.
Singer Davido once described Afrobeats as an umbrella term to describe African music and not the actual name of the genre.
“Afrobeats is what is used to describe music made by an African artist” — Davido
Burna Boy described himself as an Afro-fusion artiste because his sound evolved overtime. to him Afrobeats is a box he doesn’t fit into. Burna Boy has done Raggae, Afrobeat, Afrobeats and Hiphop.
‘‘I created Afro-Fusion because i didn’t want to be boxed into Afrobeats’’
