Discover 20 essential songs by Asa that showcase her soulful sound, poetic lyricism, and timeless influence on contemporary African music.
Asa’s music was, is, and will always be a breath of fresh air. Unconventionally soothing, her sound exists outside the pulsating nucleus of Afrobeats. She might borrow lightly from its rhythms, but her music is more soul than percussion.
If we’re being candid, Asa walked so artists like Tems could fly. In the early-to-mid 2000s, her music arrived refined, poetic, and distinct — a kind of sonic nectar that spread from Nigeria across…
