Singer, dancer, and designer Wunmi expresses a style that is truly unique, fun, and upbeat, and her music is quite reflective of all of her artistic character. Fusing afro-beats that were influenced by none other than Fela Kuti with alternative, house, and traditional African rhythms, Wunmis music will without a doubt get you up on your feet. Our favorite song from her debut album entitled “Wunmi: A.L.A (the "A.L.A" stands for African Living Abroad) would definitely have to be “Crossover”, however all of the songs on this album are fantastic including “Sweet Lullaby”, “Greedy Body”, “Message In a Bottle”, and “Woman Child”.
“Born in London to Nigerian parents who split up soon afterwards. At the tender age of four, she was sent to Lagos, where she spent the next ten years living with cousins. They may have turned her on to Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat revolution, which would later prove a crucial influence, but she always felt out of place there. “I was always made to feel that because I wasn’t born there that there was something about me that was not quite right. It was like ‘wow I’m really a foreigner here’”, she explains. Arriving back in England at fourteen was also a shock: “I ended up feeling exactly the same thing again. And really it was at that point my identity started shifting, like…who am I?” Craving attention, she retreated into a world of her imagination, finding expression in clothes, and in her later teens on the dance floors of London’s clubs, (“I find my oneness when I’m performing, when I’m dancing.”) where her unique solo style eventually caught the eye of Soul 11 Soul’s Jazzie B.” Click Here To Read More About Wunmi!
