Category: Interviews

Morse doesn’t talk about his work the way you’d expect. For such an impressive portfolio, there’s no list of credits rattling off, no name-dropping for effect. He’s measured, thoughtful, and almost understated about a career that is quietly touching some of the most significant creative projects coming out of Lagos right now. What makes him…

At 21, the Lagos-based DJ, model, event curator, and nursing graduate, Kyla, has already built a world around a single belief: that sound is never just entertainment. It is expression, control, and atmosphere. Armed with little more than her phone and an ear that most seasoned DJs would envy, she has carved out a space…

Some people enter the music industry through a door. Ayomide “Taj” Tajomavwo entered through a window: curious, self-taught, and armed with a podcast nobody asked for but plenty of people needed. What started as a music/pop culture obsession in 2015 Toronto became a career that now spans A&R, label management, artist development, and live production.…

Some artists spend their whole careers chasing a sound. James BKS, born in France and formed in part by an America that promised belonging, spent years building that sound for other people first. As a producer who made placements for superstars like Snoop Dogg, Akon, Ja Rule, and Idris Elba, he learned the industry from…

PROTON grew up on his father’s favourites like Ebenezer Obey, Sunny Ade, and Fela Kuti, legends who became the bedrock of every beat he created. Now, drawing inspiration from Dlala Thukzin’s versatile palette and Caiiro’s hypnotic sets, he transforms those foundations into Afrohouse that moves bodies. His latest single, “Green Crack”, is gaining traction across…

From his bedroom experiments in 2015 to Grammy nominations and over 320 million streams, Damie has become one of the most compelling voices in the evolution of African dance music. The producer and DJ has left his fingerprints on some of the biggest tracks in recent memory: Fave’s “Baby Riddim,” Davido’s “Kante,” and countless others…

Dami Oniru (born Bri’ana Oluwadamilola Oniru-Edwards) has built something rare in Nigerian music: a thriving R&B career on her own terms. With over 7 million streams across platforms and three Headies nominations, including Best R&B Album for her 2022 project “Matter of Time”, she’s proven that independent artists can create lasting impact. Her music carries…

Moyosola Olowokure, also known as The Sun-Kissed Poet, creates work that refuses to choose between the sacred and the human. Her debut EP “Dirt and Divinity” exists in the tension between holiness and frailty—a space most believers inhabit but few artists dare to name. With her breakout piece “Sex Is a Kind of Death” crossing…

In 2006, long before the world knew what Afrobeats would become, one music executive made a decision that seemed radical: leave a thriving career in the United States, working with major international artists, to return to Nigeria and bet on a raw, unformed sound that “didn’t carry any prestige.” Nearly two decades later, that gamble…

After years of creating music just because other people thought he was good at it, Nu Baby is finally ready to step into his own as an artist. Fresh off the release of his single Kalorie and a move back home from Canada that felt necessary for his artistic evolution, Nu is figuring out precision,…