Tems is choking up. We’re midway through a conversation that has felt philosophical, warm and animated – soaked in feeling. In the past, the singer has been described as someone whose voice is ‘unchangingly mellow’. Not so today. With just the faintest crack in her voice, she describes feeling ‘blessed’ and grateful to have lived a life filled with love.
The Nigerian-born, London-based singer-songwriter and producer – who has become the face of the wildly popular Afrobeats movement that has taken over the…