Jidenna Talks Coming Back To Nigeria, Working With Wizkid and Rise Of Afrobeat
US pop singer
Jidenna who is currently in Nigeria spoke to Pulse Nigeria in an interview
about being excited about coming back to his birth country.
“I haven’t been back while the
cameras are here, so it’s cool,” he
says. “It’s great. I think the biggest
thing for me is just being back. Each time I come back to Lagos, I get to see
the new developments, the new malls, the new spots, so I’m excited to go out
and just be around.”
The singer also spoke about
having the same working process as Wizkid while in studio and how they worked
on each others' albums giving a hint about the sound that we should expect on Star
Boy’s album.
“I love working with him. He like
I, has a profound sense of duty to not just Nigeria, but the African
continent,” the “Classic Man hit maker said. “He was very focused, and his new
album sounds like East Africa, West Africa, South Africa, North Africa, and
even Central Africa. He has different sounds, and I love that about him.”
Jidenna whose latest album has
Afrobeat inspired singles on it said that the style of music is the beginning
of a larger movement for Africa which will bring it respect, spotlight and be
appreciated.
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