As the sonic footprint for Afropop continues to reach across the world, the pulse of popular music from west Africa is re-awakening connective tissues that exist between emigrants and their home countries while opening new lanes of expression in a number of artists. Ukraine-based Nigerian singer, La Grace, is at the of this uniquely 21st-century exchange of culture, mining the lived experiences he had growing up in Surulere around the early 2000s into warm, textured Afropop.
Some of the singer’s dispatches like “Chocomilo,” “Wake Up,” and “Shaye ” have shown a singer in the…
