The fast-rising Afropop singer Ayra Starr says she always knew she was destined for greatness. It didn’t take long: She’d signed with the major African label Mavin, racked up hundreds of millions o…
says she always knew she was destined for greatness. It didn’t take long: She’d signed with the major African label Mavin, racked up hundreds of millions of streams, headlined a U.K. tour and gotten cosigns from many of her idols, all before her 21st birthday this coming June.
She’s got a busy few months ahead, with a performance at Pharrell Williams’ Something in the Water festival at Virginia Beach on the weekend of April 28 – April 30, followed by a slew of European festival dates this summer. She caught up with Variety over Zoom earlier this month.The American equivalent to “sabi girl” is baddie. “Sabi,” in Nigerian pidgin [a mix of native languages and English] means “to know, to be informed,” someone who is good at everything.
One time she got us a guitar – it only had two strings, she was scammed. She didn’t really know what it was, but she knew we wanted a guitar so she made it happen. And we made it work! We serenaded the whole neighborhood with those two strings! My brother has always been the music genius. I used to a little jealous by how beautiful he could write and sing.
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