Female Singer Omawumi Finds New Love

Omawumi is not a bad singer. She didn't win
the Nigerian Idols competition many years
ago, but the young lady grew to become one
of the respected ladies of songs in
Nigeria. Speaking on her new album that is
still in the pipeline, she said it would be a 10-
track album and would be unique and
different because it would be more of
acoustics. Omawumi said:
"I am working on my next album which
would be a live album. I have one song
with Phyno and it is wonderful. I want
to produce a 10 track album that even
when you listen to in the next 10 years
you would love it. I would use live
acoustics so you can get a feel of the
real music as opposed to using
technology all the way. I did not start
performing with live band but music is
something people want to enjoy raw, if
someone is playing a guitar for example,
people want to hear and have a feel of
the guitar. It makes music more
enjoyable as opposed to asking a disc
jockey to play your songs while you
mime to it. However, I do not blame
anybody who does not subscribe to
playing with live band, different strokes
for different folks."
Now that she has stamped her feet in the
music industry, Omawumi has decided to
look into other issues. The cute young lady
has found a new love for herself...
She said her new love is agriculture. But then,
Omawumi insists she was actually born into a
home of farmers in the sense that her father
had a farm in their home town in Warri.
Currently working with others on the theme
song for 'Cocoa na Chocolate', she said she
joined the campaign for agriculture to be
revived in Africa because it used to be the
continent's source of income before the
discovery of oil.
"I have always been into agriculture; my
father has a 25-hectare land in Ubeji, in the
outskirts of Warri. While I grew up, I used to
go to the farm and we used to process
cassava. I can make garri; I mean uprooting
the cassava, the whole process of extraction
and frying it. I can do it effortlessly same
thing with fufu and tapioca. I am actively
involved in agriculture because I grew in the
farm.
"Everything we use is actually from
agriculture especially most of the make-up
women use. I am a part of the project
because I believe we need to be actively
involved in agriculture, especially the
youths."