SPINALL Wants to Take the ‘Èkó Groove’ Afrobeats Sound to the World – OkayAfrica

A person wearing a tan blazer, orange tie, sunglasses, and a red patterned headwrap stands in a grassy field under a partly cloudy sky, channeling SPINALL’s Èkó Groove vibes with an unmistakable Afrobeats flair.

It took a while for SPINALL to determine the direction of his new album. The Nigerian DJ and producer wanted to create an intentional body of work that reflected his artistic growth as a curator. “I just leaned back to the love for music itself,” he revealed in a recent conversation with OkayAfrica. “When I made the first and second singles of this album, I didn’t know what I was doing anymore. I had a moment of clarity … listening back to some of the songs my parents used to play growing up — a particular song…