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Halloween in Nigeria: 10 Iconic Musician Outfits for Costume Inspiration
As the world progresses into true globalisation with cultures and micro-traditions from different parts of the world being phased out and on the bright side, becoming adapted and popularised. For instance in Nigeria, we’re currently witnessing a more active interest in the Gaelic-influenced, Western Christian-propagated Halloween culture and city residents all over the federation have…
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5 Things We Love About Tems ‘Crazy Tings’ Video
Nigerian music is currently having a laurels-marked year, with Nigerian artistes raking in one milestone after the other. New-gen It girl, Tems is topmost on this list of star-spotted acts, with her collaboration on Wizkid’s Essence being the first African song to go Platinum and also scoring a song on world-renown rapper, Drake’s Certified Lover…
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Celebrating Black Diamond; Here Are 6 Musicians Inspired by Wande Coal
It is often said that imitation is the highest form of flattery and while this saying has been disputed by several creatives, it remains an undebatable fact that inspiration and influences, in whatever form they come are essential to creating masterpieces. This is why in the music scene, musicians often get asked and also speak…
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From Poco Lee to Toby Shang, Get to Know the Hypemen Leading the Sound Revolution in Nigeria
Down on the party floors of Nigeria and within the padded four walls of the clubs dotting the nation’s many cities, exists what is the rise of a revolution of sound as we have come to know and consume it. Upheld by DJs who serve as bedrocks of Nigeria’s ever-expanding sound domination, party-loving Nigerians are…
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5 Celebrity Fights in the Nigerian Music Industry to Remember
In typical oral folklore which we all grew up listening to, when two elephants fight, it is said that the grass beneath their giant feet bore the brunt of this battle, trampled to a whisper of their existence. However in the music not for the ripples of casualties left in their wake but rather, thworld,…
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“I Was Extremely Introverted”- Here’s the Gist of Tems’ Talk with Apple Music
The current belle of the ball of the Nigerian music industry, Tems unwrapped her second EP, If Orange Was A Place, right in the swing of things and in the heat of her rapidly fired-up career with a short film on her sound and the core of music. The ice tea-toned singer had spoken to…
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Here’s A Rundown of Every Musician Wizkid Has Brought On Stage At the 02 Arena
Born Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun but known by several names, Wizkid has several times and unequivocally proved himself as the African Starboy and a global megastar. One of such stamps and status markers was unlocked some three years ago on the 26th of May 2018 when he entertained a twenty thousand-strong crowd at the 02 Arena…
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5 Times Nigerian Musicians & Industry Game Players Broke A World Record
Over the past decade, Nigerian musicians have been on a jet-set trajectory, championing the Afrobeats sound as well as Nigerian music and creativity in its entirety. Similarly, the 2020s have started off on a high note with our musicians cashing out on the global scene like a vibrant partygoer on a cash-lined owambe dance floor.…
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The Remarkable Rise of Big Tems; 5 Defining Moments of Her Career
Over the past twenty years, Nigerian music has had a hefty list of turning points that have served to renovate the sound and re-establish its impact on the homebound scene as well as the global. Like a chain-like great wall, a lot of things have come together to hoist songs, producers and artistes that have…
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10 Hottest Amapiano Songs by Nigerian Musicians
There are several similarities between nations of the African continent that makes it feel like siblings in a huge compound; deeply connected while uniquely diverse all at the same time. Over the years, similar experiences and shared ideas have also come to inform some of these similarities, and with the age of the internet well…