Afrobeats star Asake brought Lagos to Brooklyn and made history as the first African artist to headline Red Bull Symphonic in the U.S., bridging his Nigerian roots with classical music under the direction of conductor Glenn Alexander II.
At 8:33 p.m. on November 8th, the red curtains at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre opened to reveal a 33-piece orchestra. Behind them was an LED screen that played two videos simultaneously—one a vignette of New York’s cityscape and another showing Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city. The parallel imagery of…
