Selassie taking centre stage

BUDDING urban and Afrobeat singer, Selassie who recently released his debut nine-tracker entitled, ' Anywhere Belle Face', is doing everything possible to be in the spotlight. And he's surely getting the desired response from his growing fanbase.

Just less than two months after he premiered the visuals for his lead single, 'Obianuju' off the album, the handsome singer is already making waves with his Obianuju video.

Selassie was one of the musicians that thrilled the large crowd that thronged the popular Freedom Park on the Lagos island for the just concluded The Lagos International Jazz Festival. He's also warming up again to grace the stage,for another exciting event tagged, 'Music and fashion show' which is billed to hold on the 26^th of May, at the same Freedom Park.

Selassie is not ready to slow down, even as he has hinted on his Facebook page that he's dropping a new song titled, “The Lagos Anthem” soon.

On his Obianuju video, the artiste said that he dedicated the video to all the women and girls who have in one way or the other, supported his career.

Obianuju, according to him, “ is one song that I wrote when I was making my project. I decided to make a love song for all the women, all the girls that have supported my career because there is something I tell other artistes; without women you are nobody. Without girls you are nowhere. They are our biggest fans. So this is a song specially for all my female fans. I decided to release it as my first video to showcase my love for everybody out there, he told The Nation.Directed by MLV, Obijanuju is a single of the artistes mixtape, Anywhere Belle Face.

Other tracks in the mixtape include Thunder Fire You (Produced by Ehzy Beatz), So Amazing (featuring Santa), Off and On, Na So, Pop Star, Palava, 1 Chance, as well as Ginja.

Selassie says that he aims to attain the same heights as his mentor, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. “One thing I like about his music is, first of all, he stood for what he believed in and he always sang about it. And that is what I want to do. I just want to release music that comes from the heart,” he said.