LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigerian singer-songwriter Tiwa Savage says there’s a “revolution going on” in African music and she is “very humbled and excited” to take her music to a worldwide audience. “It’s a beautiful journey, it’s history in the making,” Savage said Thursday of her newly announced recording deal. Savage is one of the world’s leading Afrobeats artists and the first African artist to sign a global deal with Universal Music Group. and then I really got into jazz like Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, and then I got into soul R & B and I really, really got into Brandi’s voice,” she said. That was really, really what got me into singing.”She now takes daily inspiration from her peers both at home and overseas.

Source: National Post May 03, 2019 14:03 UTC