Afropop Round-up 2021-2022

I've previously written two posts featuring a round-up of Afropop (African popular music) posts on Star Sparkle, in 2019 and then in 2021. You can see them at the links below:

Afropop Round-up: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/09/afropop-round-up.html

Afropop Round-up 2019-2021: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/06/afropop-round-up-2019-2021.html 

 

The 2nd post was written in September last year, so today I'm doing a new round-up of Afropop posts featured since then. :) 

Tyla feat. Kooldrink- Getting Late (South African): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/10/weekly-music-video_20.html

Ethiopian and Eritrean Videos (not strictly Afropop but I thought I'd include it!):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/11/ethopian-and-eritrean-videos.html

Nabila- Ça Ira (Cameroonian): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/01/weekly-music-video_26.html

B Young feat. Tayc- So Distant (British/Cameroonian French), also feature a BANKS song: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/02/new-music-b-young-and-banks.html 

Ayra Starr- Bloody Samaritan (Nigerian): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/03/weekly-music-video.html 

Justin Bieber and Omah Lay- Attention (Canadian/Nigerian): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/03/weekly-music-video_9.html

Kofi- On Me (Kofi is Canadian with a Ghanaian dad and his song is R'n'B with some African influences): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/05/weekly-music-video_25.html

Pérola- Sincera (Angolan): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/07/weekly-music-video.html 

Yemi Alade- Begging (Nigerian): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/08/weekly-music-video_10.html

B Young feat. King Promise- Rolling Stone (British/Ghanaian): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/09/weekly-music-video_28.html 

 

Ayra Starr and Kelly Rowland- Bloody Samaritan remix

And here is a video I haven't previously posted. This is the new remix of Bloody Samaritan, Nigerian singer Ayra Starr's single which was released back in July 2021 (see link above). For the remix she teamed up wth American singer Kelly Rowland, who started out in the star girl group Destiny's Child and later went solo.

The Bloody Samaritan remix came out on 5th October. This is the Performance Video. 

Update: 5/4/23: The remix can be found on the deluxe version of Ayra's album 19 & Dangerous, which was also released in October.

 

To watch the original Bloody Samaritan video, see the link above or click here.

 

Also visit this link to see the video for Ayra's last single Rush (released in September): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crtQSTYWtqE

And follow Kelly's YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZSaQhZP1q2LwzIh5XLwMew

 

Hope you liked the post! :) What is your current favourite Afropop song (or songs)?

 

P.S. Check out these dance videos to try out some African/Afropop dance moves:

 Afropop and K-pop Dance Tutorials (also featuring K-pop!): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/03/afropop-and-k-pop-dance-tutorials.html

African Dance Videos: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/05/african-dance-videos.html