African Music Divas, 11, Aṣa

[Toyin Falola]

Asa is larger than life! Larger than life, I repeat. If you are yet to see her life performance, pray for long life so that you can. She has been to Austin, and close to you in New York, or your side of London. She divides her time between Lagos and Paris, and she performs in both. She is very generous with her time, talking to younger people, granting interviews. A super celebrity, the Nigerian government once selected her as one of five to rebrand the country (Alas! with everything Nigerian, they added a crookish scholar to the list, thus de-branding their image, wasting their money!)

 

Asa Bukola Elemide inherited strong creative genes from her parents, cinematographers who also happened to be, like me, insatiable collectors of music. Thank God, her parents returned her back to Lagos at the age of 2 where she became grounded in Lagos/urban/Yoruba/cosmopolitan culture. Thank God, yet again, unlike Nigerian parents who compel their children to do Law or Engineering or Medicine, her parents allowed her to pursue her dreams. By the time she returned to France at the age of 20 to do Music in school, she was told that she was ready to go pro. Pro, she became. Her very first outing, labeled Asa, was a platinum. By 2008, she had won the French Constantin Award; her songs were played on radio all over the world. She became a star with the first studio album.

What an incredible story!

What an incredible figure!!

What an amazing talent!!!

 

Listen to her majestic debut as you take your coffee or tea or water:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keTJPH-alFQ

 

[Anthony Akinola]

Prof,

You may,at some stage, want to pay tribute to Millie Small who died today at the age of 73.

The Jamaican lady kept a generation entertained with her exciting songs.

My Boy Lollipop was among her top hit.

Regards,

Anthony

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[O O]

Yes, indeed. Asa, so relatable and so lyrically penetrating.

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On May 6, 2020, at 3:15 AM, Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:



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[Toyin Falola]

Eyo

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDwAxJdktUM&list=RDdDwAxJdktUM&start_radio=1&t=66

 

 

 

 

[Toyin Falola]

As I sign off for the evening, I wish you well for the rest of the day with selection from Asa. Tomorrow is another day, with my three mini-series, my small contribution to peace and healing at this time. It is hard work, but truly energizing.

 

Asa

Satan Be Gone

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT-DqubButo&list=RDdDwAxJdktUM&index=8

 

 

Fire on the Mountain

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jIhNOrVG58&list=RDdDwAxJdktUM&index=6

 

 

Ba Mi Dele

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS3lg3KpTTA&list=RDdDwAxJdktUM&index=9

 

 

[Gloria Emeagwali]

https://werdsmith.com/genesology/AtMFm0PBM

An interesting piece on Sata, one of the ancient Egyptian rebel serpents, granted that Apep or Apophis seemed to be even more deadly than Sata.

The ancient Egyptians would have added Covid 19, to the list of spiritual entities, and that crown of Covid would have become a new hieroglyph for chaos and danger. 

They would have made effigies of Covid 19 and mutilated and burnt them, and written books about how to destroy it. Recall “The books of overthrowing Apep.” So we would have had a book for overthrowing Covid19.

And who knows, fast forward into the future, our great Singer Asa would be singing “Covid be gone.”

GE

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