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Weekly Music Video

This week's video (or audio) is IT'S TRUE by Nigeran singer and record producer CKay and featuring  Canadian dancer, actress and singer Nora Fatehi. It's from CKay's latest album project EMOTIONS, which was released in October. 

EMOTIONS follows CKay's debut album Sad Romance (which came out in 2022) and is a fusion of Nigerian and international music. CKay (who is known as "Africa's Boyfriend") says that the album is about "vulnerablility and growth". Singles from EMOTIONS include WAHALA featuring Nigerian rapper and singer Olamide, IN MY BED and ADDICTED featuring Nigerian highlife band The Cavemen..

For IT'S TRUE, CKay teamed up with Nora, who has Moroccan heritage and is known for her dancing (in particular belly dancing). She began her acting career by appearing in Indian films (Bollywood and South Indian), both for item numbers and acting roles, and is based in India. 

Last February, Nora signed a record deal with Warner Music, with plans to release music internationally. She is still signed to Indian record label T-Series for her Bollywood music.

IT'S TRUE is a laidback Afrobeats/R'n'B song, with a mixture of English, Pidgin and Hindi lyrics. Both CKay and Nora's vocals suit the song. The audio was uploaded in October. You can find the lyrics in the info box on YouTube (plus English translations of the Hindi lyrics), or watch with subtitles. :)

 


Listen to/buy EMOTIONS here: https://ckay.lnk.to/EMOTIONS 


CKay fan? Check out these links:

Live performance of lose you by CKay and Ronisia (2022): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2023/01/weekly-music-video.html

Music video for CKay's latest single ADDICTED feat. The Cavemen. (uploaded in November): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbmvAMocJPU

 

Want more Nora? Check out these links:

Bollywood Round-up 2018- Part 1 (featuring Nora's dance performance of Dilbar from the Bollywood film Satyameva Jayate): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/08/bollywood-round-up-2018-part-1.html  

Kamaryia from the 2018 Bollywood movie Stree (video song): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/09/weekly-music-video_5.html

Features the Arabic version  of Dilbar from Satyameva Jayate (2018): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/04/bollywood-coversremakes.html 

Manike from Thank God (2022): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/10/weekly-music-video_19.html 

Nora's latest single Snake, with American singer Jason Derulo (released on 16th January): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q_k8JuqyV0

 





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