Tiwa Savage Speaks on Collaboration With Sam Smith

Nigerian award-winning singer, Tiwa Savage has revealed juicy details about her collaboration with British singer, Sam Smith. She stated that having Smith feature on her song titled Temptation was a dream come through and it changed the”whole face” of her music project.

The 40-year-old singer who recently announced a release date for Celia, her highly anticipated album spoke in an recent interview with Apple Music.

“When I walked in, because we had a recording session with… We had nine rooms in a hotel and I had different pieces of writing, and I walked into this particular room and I heard this record, and I heard the chorus, and I was just like, ‘This song is so special,’” she said.

“I sat with it for days just trying to get the perfect topline. And we did everything, and my label are like, ‘Which songs do you want to do a feature on?’ And I said, ‘There is this one song that I hear an artist on,’ and they were like, ‘Who is it?’ I’m like, ‘I hear Sam Smith.’ But I know that’s never going to happen. So, that’s it. We just walked away from it. I promise you, I wasn’t even thinking that anything was going to happen. Literally, I think maybe six months later, my manager calls me and my manager’s like, ‘Sam is going to do the record.’ I said, ‘Sam who? What are you talking about?’

“Even still, I was just like, no, this is impossible. Five days later, she calls me and she pulls a Khaled on me. She says, ‘The vocals are in.’

“I opened my email, I heard it, and I literally had goosebumps, because we don’t know how amazing Sam is.

“I was like, wow, this is incredible. And it just changed the whole face of the project. Do you know what I mean? Because this is really happening for afrobeat, not even just with Tiwa.”

On his part, Smith, 28, who featured Burna Boy on his recent single, My Oasis; took to his Instagram page to thank Tiwa for the collaboration.

“I had so much fun working on this one with the unstoppable and beautiful talent that is @tiwasavage – thank you for the opportunity. Hopefully one day we will be dancing and singing this together, cocktail in hand x,” he wrote.

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 I had so much fun working on this one with the unstoppable and beautiful talent that is @tiwasavage - thank you for the opportunity. Hopefully one day we will be dancing and singing this together, cocktail in hand x
 
A post shared by  Sam Smith (@samsmith) on Aug 24, 2020 at 9:45am PDT
 

Tiwa‘s new album, Celia will be released on August 28.