Tiwa Savage: I always wanted to be an actor – Yahoo Lifestyle Australia

Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage is known as the “Queen of Afrobeats” but now she’s momentarily hanging up her microphone to make her acting debut in the new film, Water & Garri.

The film now showing on Amazon Prime follows a young woman called Aisha, played by Tiwa Savage, an ambitious fashion designer who returns home to Nigeria after 10 years in the United States.

Although the Grammy-nominated singer has enchanted people with her buttery smooth voice, she told the BBC Focus on Africa podcast that acting was always a path she wanted to pursue.

“I…