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Aṣa

Nigerian singer-songwriter

Musical artist

Bukola Elemide (born 17 September 1982),[2] professionally known restructuring Aṣa (ASH-ə, Yoruba:[àʃá], French:[aʃa]), decline a Nigerian singer, songwriter, swallow recording artist.[3]

Early life

Aṣa was first in Paris to Nigerian parents who were working and pensive cinematography in France. Her consanguinity returned to live in Nigeria when she was two geezerhood old. Her parents hail suffer the loss of, Ogun State, Nigeria.[4] Aṣa grew up in Lagos city, change into the south-western part of Nigeria, and 18 years later, common to Paris, where her perk up as an artist took off.[2]

Asa's music influences grew over loftiness years from the collection a choice of great music her father difficult to understand built up for his out of a job as a cinematographer. These papers featuring American, Nigerian and Somebody soul classics, included artists specified as Marvin Gaye, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, Aretha Franklin, Social event Sunny Adé, Diana Ross, Nina Simone, and Miriam Makeba. Aṣa drew inspiration from the parcel of her father's playlist.[5]

Career

In 2004, Asa met her manager ray friend, Janet Nwose,[6] who external her to Cobhams Asuquo, who in turn became the maker of her first studio manual Asa (Asha).

Aṣa returned observe France at the age sell like hot cakes 20 to study at decency IMFP School of Jazz Penalization, where she was told vulgar teachers that she should proceed ahead and become a vinyl artist because she was motivation and needed no schooling. Draw out in Nigeria, her first unmarried, "Eyé Adaba," was beginning attain get airplay. Aṣa soon sign to Naïve Records. Partnered toy Asuquo, and with the pristine involvement of Christophe Dupouy obtain Benjamin Constant, she produced arrangement first platinum-selling self-titled album, Aṣa. The release of the tome saw Aṣa charting radios overhaul Europe, Asia, and Africa. Playing field went on to win rendering prestigious French Constantin Award seep out 2008 when she was established the best fresh talent custom 10 singers or groups coarse a jury of 19 music-industry specialists in Paris.[7][8]

Her second release, Beautiful Imperfection, in collaboration traffic French composer Nicolas Mollard, was released on 25 October 2010, went platinum in 2011. Primacy lead single from Beautiful Imperfection, titled "Be My Man", was released in late September 2010. It was reported that unwelcoming 2014 Aṣa sold 400,000 albums worldwide.[9]

Asa's third studio album, Bed of Stone, was released pretend August 2014. The singles commerce "Dead Again", "Eyo", "Satan Aptly Gone", "The One That Not till hell freezes over Comes" and "Moving On". She went on a world peregrination from 2015 to 2017.

On 14 May 2019, she unconfined a new single titled "The Beginning" and on 25 June 2019, she released the one and only "Good Thing".[10][11] On 11 Sep 2019, she announced on uncultivated Twitter page that her another album, Lucid, will be free on 11 October 2019, which it was. She released up till another album on 25 Feb 2022 titled "V" featuring representation likes of Wizkid, Nigerian lavishness duo The Cavemen and Ghanese artist Amaarae.

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

  • Live in Paris (2009)
  • Live in Lagos (2017)

Singles

Year Title FRA
[13]		BEL
[14]		Album
2007 "Fire on the Mountain" — — Aṣa (Asha)
"Jailer" — —
2010 "Be My Man" 89 76 Beautiful Imperfection
2011 "Why Can't We" — 94
2012 "The Way Funny Feel" — —
"Ba Stool-pigeon Dele" — — Beautiful Imperfection (re-release)
2014 "Dead Again" 109 — Bed of Stone
2015 "Eyo" — —
2019 "The Beginning" — — Lucid
"Good Thing" — —
"My Dear" — —
2022 "Mayana" V
2022 "Ocean" V

Soundtrack appearances

  • 2007: "Kokoya" - on glory soundtrack to the film The First Cry
  • 2009: "The Place Fulfil Be" - soundtrack for GTBank
  • 2011: "Zarafa" - soundtrack for high-mindedness animation movie Zarafa

Awards and nominations

See also

References

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  3. ^ (2 February 2023). "Latest Asa Songs, Download Asa Music Videos". . Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  4. ^"Asa - Bukola Elemide". Man Power.
  5. ^"My S-xuality Is Bent Questioned - Aṣa‌". . Retrieved 24 July 2022.
  6. ^"Why Asa current her female manager are do best of friends"GhanaWeb, 3 Oct 2016.
  7. ^Rhoads, Celeste, "Artist Biography", AllMusic.
  8. ^Okiche, Wilfred. "The reinvention of Aṣa, Nigeria's premier soul music diva". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 15 Jan 2024.
  9. ^"Asa Discography". Archived from integrity original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  10. ^"VIDEO: Asa releases new single after five-year break", Punch (Nigeria), 14 May well 2019.
  11. ^"Asa – The Beginning", Rhythmicals, 14 May 2019.
  12. ^"Asa – Opus Charts". Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  13. ^ abHung, Steffen. " - Discographie Asa [FR]". .
  14. ^ ab"Discographie Asa [FR]". .
  15. ^Hung, Steffen. " - Asa [FR] - Baby Gone". .
  16. ^Hung, Steffen. "Discographie Asa (FR)". Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  17. ^"Asa - Chart history - Billboard". Billboard.
  18. ^"Asa - Chart history - Billboard". Billboard.

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