Lojay honors Afrobeats as a major influence in his life. “Afrobeats made me interested in music,” he says in a conversation with OkayAfrica. “I always loved music and would listen passively, but not until Afrobeats artists taking centerstage did I even think of music as something I wanted to know about. I actually want to understand the sound.”
Coming from a church background and tinkering with drums before he was a teenager, the interest was long-honed, but Afrobeats gave form to Lojay’s roving mind. “When it…
