Singer Omawumi Finds New Love
Omawumi is not a bad singer. She didn’t win the Nigerian Idols
competition many years ago, but the young lady grew to become one of the
respected ladies of songs in Nigeria. Speaking on her new album that is
still in the pipeline, she said it would be a 10-track album and would
be unique and different because it would be more of acoustics. Omawumi
said:
Currently working with others on the theme song for ‘Cocoa na Chocolate’, she said she joined the campaign for agriculture to be revived in Africa because it used to be the continent’s source of income before the discovery of oil.
“I have always been into agriculture; my father has a 25-hectare land in Ubeji, in the outskirts of Warri. While I grew up, I used to go to the farm and we used to process cassava. I can make garri; I mean uprooting the cassava, the whole process of extraction and frying it. I can do it effortlessly same thing with fufu and tapioca. I am actively involved in agriculture because I grew in the farm.
“Everything we use is actually from agriculture especially most of the make-up women use. I am a part of the project because I believe we need to be actively involved in agriculture, especially the youths."
“I am working on my next album which would be a live album. I have one song with Phyno and it is wonderful. I want to produce a 10 track album that even when you listen to in the next 10 years you would love it. I would use live acoustics so you can get a feel of the real music as opposed to using technology all the way. I did not start performing with live band but music is something people want to enjoy raw, if someone is playing a guitar for example, people want to hear and have a feel of the guitar. It makes music more enjoyable as opposed to asking a disc jockey to play your songs while you mime to it. However, I do not blame anybody who does not subscribe to playing with live band, different strokes for different folks.”Now that she has stamped her feet in the music industry, Omawumi has decided to look into other issues. The cute young lady has found a new love for herself...
She said her new love is agriculture. But then, Omawumi insists she was
actually born into a home of farmers in the sense that her father had a
farm in their home town in Warri.
Currently working with others on the theme song for ‘Cocoa na Chocolate’, she said she joined the campaign for agriculture to be revived in Africa because it used to be the continent’s source of income before the discovery of oil.
“I have always been into agriculture; my father has a 25-hectare land in Ubeji, in the outskirts of Warri. While I grew up, I used to go to the farm and we used to process cassava. I can make garri; I mean uprooting the cassava, the whole process of extraction and frying it. I can do it effortlessly same thing with fufu and tapioca. I am actively involved in agriculture because I grew in the farm.
“Everything we use is actually from agriculture especially most of the make-up women use. I am a part of the project because I believe we need to be actively involved in agriculture, especially the youths."
