The global Afrobeats boom is bigger than ever in the U.S., and its starting to have a meaningful and lasting effect on the American music industry. Everyone wants to be in the Afrobeats game, even industry bigwigs like Chris Brown and Selena Gomez. The Afropop mania is affecting the genre itself, too. Afrobeats has never been a monolithic genre, but now, artists are more fearless while blending African sounds with those of the Western world, creating something new, fresh and exciting. Nola Adé is one of those artists.
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