On Friday, May 31, Nigerian recording artiste, Ayra Starr released her sophomore album, The Year I Turned 21.
The music project has been receiving predominantly positive remarks from music pundits across Africa.
The singer-songwriter whose real name is Oyinkansola Sarah Aderibigbe has opened up about her struggle with writer’s block and how it affected her.
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The ‘Rush’ crooner said she couldn’t write songs for about six months until she received the demo of her song ’21’ off her new album, ‘The Year I Turned 21,’ from a friend as a birthday present which opened her mind.
“I got the demo of ’21’ from a friend as a birthday gift the day I turned 21,” She said in a viral podcast interview.
“I had told him that it has been so hard… I was having a writer’s block for six months. I couldn’t write about myself then he gave me the first version of the song in a demo as my birthday gift. Recording ’21’ was quite easy for me, I did it in one-take. I was even lying down with the mic in my hand.
“’21’ is special because it is what opened my mind to the rest of the album. With ’21’ I started to see myself again the way I wanted to see myself.”