Tag: Yemi Alade

Yemi Alade, the popular Nigerian singer, is set to record and perform the theme song for the upcoming Lion Forge Entertainment’s Nigerian superhero animation ‘Iyanu’.

The singer announced this in a video message posted on the serial’s YouTube channel on Saturday.

She said: “Hello, everyone, my name is Yemi Alade. I’ve fantastic news for you today. I just want to share with you right now that I’ve been asked to sing the theme song for the incredible animated series ‘Iyanu’.

“Enjoy my song ‘Iyanu’ right now. This is a love message from me to you and I really hope that you enjoy it as much as I do.”

Steeped in Nigerian culture and mythology, ‘Iyanu’ is an adaptation of the popular graphic novel Iyanu: Child of Wonder by Nigerian creator and filmmaker Roye Okupe.

The main title theme song is a collaboration between Yemi Alade, Lion Forge Entertainment, Alcon Sleeping Giant, and Femi Agunbiade, the lead composer for the series.

‘Iyanu’ is scheduled to debut in the U.S. and across Africa in 2025. U.S. audiences can catch the series on Cartoon Network and Max, while it will be available in 44 African countries via Showmax.

The star-studded cast includes Serah Johnson as Iyanu, Adesua Etomi-Wellington, Stella Damasus, Blossom Chukwujekwu, and Shaffy Bello.

Yemi Alade has previously worked on Beyoncé’s ‘Lion King: The Gift’ album which was a theme album for the eponymous animated movie.

The popular Nigerian singer, Yemi Alade, has opened up on why she named her forthcoming album ‘Rebel Queen’.

At a press briefing in Lagos on Friday, the songstress said the body of work is a combination of “my thoughts, melodies and truck load of nostalgia”.

Alade also said she made the album because she got tired of the “monotony in genre and style” of Afrobeats music.

“I am a true rebel in words and in action. So many albums tend to have monotony in genre and style and it bores me easily most times. This album is a blend of what my playlist consists of right now; the new and old pop music that cuts across generations and boundaries. I am generally known as someone who has always charted her own course and walked the path less travelled,” she said.

“Rebel Queen has something new, old and borrowed. I want to emphasise to you that every song is unique and a capsule of my thoughts and melodies and truck load of nostalgia.”

She further disclosed that the 16-track album theme includes feminity, liberation anf consciousness.

“It’s a 16 track album that takes you through sounds of Africa on different tempos and rhythms with features from a few of your favorite artistes from different parts of the world. The album covers feminity, style, dance, motivation, liberation and consciousness,” she added.

‘Rebel Queen’ is Alade’s sixth studio album. Her other projects include ‘King of Queen’, ‘Mama Africa’, ‘Black Magic’, ‘Woman of Steel’ and ‘Empress’.

Since Alade gained fame with the release of ‘Johnny’ in 2014, the songstress has established herself as a household name in the music industry.

Alade enjoys delivering her songs in English, Yoruba, and French languages.

Yemi Alade, the award-winning Nigerian singer, has said music for her is passion and not a career.

Speaking in the latest episode of the Tea With Tay podcast, Alade explained that if she were to choose a career years back, she would not have chosen music.

The ‘Johnny’ crooner said, “It [music] was always a passion and I was hoping to see where it would take me. Do I feel like I needed to drop everything I was doing in life and focused solely on music? No.”

Speaking further, Alade said, “I loved the idea of it [music] but I did not wanted it to be a career. I did not see it as a career. It was a big hobby I was very invested in. But not a career.

“If you had asked me 11/12 years ago if I wanted to be a musician, I would not pick that as a career choice. I still wouldn’t do it. As much as I was into a lot of music related stuff, I just believed that this hobby I would do something with it but I’m going to continue with my academics like my parents want me to. I’m certain I’m going to get a job if music didn’t work out.”

She, however, said it changed after she won the Peak Talent Show in 2009 after which she signed to Effyzzie Music Group, and had a hit with her single ‘Johnny’ in 2014.

Yemi Eberechi Alade, the famous Nigerian Afropop singer, who is better known as Yemi Alade has survived a tragic car accident in Spain.

The ‘Johnny’ singer who expressed her gratitude for only losing a fingernail in an Instagram post on Tuesday claimed the mishap happened on Thursday.

She wrote, “On the 17th of August, we were in a car crash, somewhere between Barcelona and Benicassim in Spain at 12:06(noon)

“Also experienced a minor medical emergency from exhaustion after performing on stage 7 hours after the incident on the same day and somehow, I ended up at the “after party” (leave me o. my mind needed positive vibrations)

“Life is for the living… I didn’t want to put this out, but the devil had other plans, but my Jehovah jiray said NO! THE blood of Jesus spoke for us.

“I only lost a nail, it all happened suddenly. Nothing is too sudden or complicated for God. His Grace is more than sufficient.”