Must read: I admire Don Jazzy, Yemi Alade Reveals Male Admirers.

 

Nigeria female singing sensation, Yemi Alade who has carve a niche for herself locally and internationally after the release of her first hit single, ‘Johnny’ continues to maintain her relevance in the music scene.

The singer who recently won the Best Female Act at the MAMA awards in a lengthy chat with The Net spoke about the heartbreaks she encountered after losing previous awards nominations. According to her,

“For quite a number of almost 2 years now, I have lost a few awards, even though I was nominated. The feeling has always been positive, it has always been just keep working and going on, awards will come and go. I just try my best not to take it to heart, I just really try my best; the theme was just keep working”.

She spoke about her admiration for fellow female star singers, I definitely admire Tiwa Savage, she is definitely one of the females who came up and changed the game, by being different and I also admire Cynthia Morgan as well, because she also came up with something different”.

She heaped praises on male celebrity trio of Don Jazzy, P-Square and Banky W for their contributions to Nigerian music scene.  According to her, “Male singers, P-Square is top on my list because of their resilience, because of their lengthy stay in the industry, their work ethic, their accomplishments and everything about P Square is very worthy of admiration. I also admire Don Jazzy for not stopping even when the world thought it was over for him, he gave birth to something new, refreshing and lasting, The Mavin dynasty. I also admire Banky W because of what he stands for musically in Nigeria”.

Yemi further revealed what gave birth to her signature hairstyle and why she couldn’t deviate from it. “It all started with Clarence Peters when we wanted to shoot ‘Johnny’ video and he asked my hair stylist to bring hair styles that would stand out and that would also show my face, show my face very well so that when people watch my video, they will easily relate and say Ohh that is Yemi Alade. His second reason was that he wanted a situation where after this video people will go to the saloon and tell them and say Ohh I want Yemi Alade’s hairstyle, and that really just about the secret, then Ad smiles came up with the hairstyle, since then I haven’t been able to take it off my head”.