Asides getting an RIAA gold certification for his recent smash hit, Ke Star Remix (featuring Davido), Focalistic’s sounds have soundtracked the entire summer of 2021. The 25-year-old singer has been one of the biggest exports of Amapiano for the past few years. Pretorian-bred Amapiano Prince, Lethabo Sebetso, popular as Focalistic, is no strange name to African music lovers. Take a look at some of your faves for the ‘Artiste of the Year’ category, this year, it is a continental battle Past winners in the ‘Artiste of the Year’ category are Davido (Nigeria – 2014) Diamond Platnum (Tanzania – 2015) Wizkid (Nigeria – 2016) Wizkid (Nigeria -2017) Davido (Nigeria – 2018) and Burna Boy (Nigeria- 2019). This year is quite interesting as it is not just a battle of the greats, but a battle that infuses some of the most prominent voices ever in Africa’s music scene. The ‘Artiste of the Year’ category is one juicy nomination that, like the Midas Touch, if wielded by any artiste has the power to turn almost every situation into gold. Public voting is ongoing and ends on Saturday, Novemon AFRIMA’s website Tickets to the Music Fest coming up on Friday, Novemat 6pm, and the award on Sunday, Novemwill be on sale on AFRIMA website ( from Sunday, October 31 at 18:00 (EAT). AFRIMA 2021 holds at Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos, Nigeria from November 19-21, 2021 with live broadcast to 84 television stations in 109 countries. It is less than one month to the seventh edition of the much-anticipated All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) 2021, and votes have long been stacking up for all 38 categories created to celebrate the best of African music. The world can also connect and explore their musical MoodSwings on all digital music platforms, which includes iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Deezer etc.Īdd #MoodSwings to your playlist to see the ‘Rainbow’. The rainbow is a representation of the brighter side of life, and so synergy is in all the moods coming together.” When asked which of the songs resonates with the teachings of his late mum, Edem recalled that “Each one of them because my mum didn’t say that a particular thing was or is what works in life, she said: it is all the colours that come together to get you to see the rainbow.
Letting me understand how to see life in colors and so it comes to bare on my music and my emotions towards the music.”īeautifully representing each mood with a color, the songs on the EP, from “ Love You”, “Kpo”, “ Money”, “ Efo Kojo”, “ In Ghana” a nd “ Chidi”, colourfully comes together as an embodiment of whom Edem is. Stressing that “it also overlaps against the backdrop of me seeing life as colors and understanding that every mood is a different color which is something that I was raised on by mom. “MoodSwings is the various spaces I find myself creatively as an artiste and the various emotions that I find myself carrying at every point in time through my creativity.” Speaking to Edem in an interview, the brilliant Musician clearly drew the line connecting these values from his mum taught him, using colours as reference on his yet to be release EP. Not forgetting other hit songs like “I’m The One” featuring UK based Ghanaian Rapper, Sway, through “Koene”, “Bra Fremi Fremi”, “Gbevu”, “Over Again”, just to mention a few. Over the years, the artiste has made his name and career in and out of Ghana with hit songs like “You Dey Craze” featuring notable multiple award-winning artistes Kwaw Kese and Sarkodie “Nyedzilo” featuring Nigeria’s superstar Rekado Banks. In spite of their permanent connection, this is the first time Edem mentions his mum in his entire career as a celebrated Ghanaian Musician. The story isn’t far from that of the illustrious Ghanaian musician, Edem, who is known mainly for his Rap competency and his proficiency with the local Ghanaian dialect, Ewe.Īlso like most people, Edem shares an unbreakable bond with his late Mum with lessons taught him leaving an indelible mark in his life and his new EP, #MoodSwings. Parents made conscious efforts to inculcate some basic but strong principles in life of their children so it could guide them for the rest of their lives. How to navigate through the storms without being a liability to themselves and the world at large. Growing up, the older generation was mandated with the sole duty of preparing the younger generation for the world ahead.