ASA IS OUR WOMAN CRUSH WEDNESDAY

It’s woman crush Wednesday, and our woman crush is Bukola Elemide, professionally known as Aṣa, is a Nigerian-French singer, songwriter, and recording artist.

Emerging with a self-titled debut in 2007, she released Beautiful Imperfection in 2010, leading to a Victoires de la Musique nomination in France, where she regularly charts. A dozen years after her debut, her fourth studio album, Lucid, arrived in 2019.

Her debut album, Asa, arrived on Naïve Records in 2007, with its lead single, “Fire on the Mountain,” receiving airplay on radio stations throughout Europe. Though her songs feature mainly English lyrics, she also sings in Yoruba, a West African language widely spoken in Nigeria. The album was warmly received in France, winning her the Prix Constantin in 2008 and charting in the Top 20. She issued Live in Paris in 2009 before the proper follow-up, 2010’s Beautiful Imperfection, which reached number 14 in France and saw her nominated for a Victoires de la Musique award for Female Artist of the Year.

Asa has dropped an amazing body of works from when she started till now, she will be dropping a new song on Friday titled “Ocean”.

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Here are five things you don’t know about our woman crush;

1. 1. She hated her secondary school
   2. She loves her man to be tall and dark
   3. She didn’t expect her first album to do well.
   4. She found herself in a talent show
   5. Asa is funny; you will know from her post on social media.

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