{"id":644868,"date":"2019-05-14T11:10:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div> <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/14111036-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Asa\" title=\"Asa\"\/><\/div><p>Nigerian singer, songwriter, and recording artist, Asa Elemide a"},"modified":"2019-05-14T11:10:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:10:47","slug":"asa-drops-new-single-the-beginning-after-5-years-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/14\/asa-drops-new-single-the-beginning-after-5-years-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Asa drops new single \u2018The Beginning\u2019 after 5 years break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/14111036-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Asa\" title=\"Asa\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Nigerian singer, songwriter, and recording artist, Asa Elemide a.k.a Asa, has released her first single, \u201cThe Beginning,\u2019\u2019 after five-year hiatus.<\/p>\n<p>Asa, revealed on twitter that the single is the opening track off her forthcoming studio album.<\/p>\n<p>The singer had earlier on her instagram handle, @asaofficial revealed the song\u2019s release, is a worthy comeback that should satisfy fans after the five-year music break they were subjected to.<\/p>\n<p>The song is a lo-fi, melodious post-break-up song that details the residual love still between the warring partners.<\/p>\n<p>A\u1e63a\u2019s music influences grew from her father\u2019s music collection built up for his work as a cinematographer,<br \/>with records featuring American, Nigerian and African soul classics such as Mavin Gaye, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, Sunny Ade, Diana Ross, Miriam Makeba.<\/p>\n<p>She has released several albums including, \u201cAsa\u2019\u2019, which charted radios across Europe, Asia and Africa and went on win the prestigious French Constantin Award in 2008, where she was voted best fresh talent of 10 singers or groups by a jury of 19 music-industry specialists in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Other albums released include: Beautiful Imperfection in collaboration with a French composer Nicolas Mollard, \u201cBed of Stone\u2019\u2019 released in August 2014 and the singer went on a world tour from 2015 to 2017.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3E3E3E\"><i>Get more stories like this on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/todayng\" style=\"color: #ED1C24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian singer, songwriter, and recording artist, Asa Elemide a.k.a Asa, has released her first single, \u201cThe Beginning,\u2019\u2019 after five-year hiatus. Asa, revealed on twitter that the single is the opening track off her forthcoming studio album. The singer had earlier on her instagram handle, @asaofficial revealed the song\u2019s release, is a worthy comeback that should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1747,1749,1750,1296,1748,480],"class_list":["post-644868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood","tag-asa","tag-beginning","tag-break","tag-drops","tag-single","tag-years"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Asa drops new single \u2018The Beginning\u2019 after 5 years break - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/14\/asa-drops-new-single-the-beginning-after-5-years-break\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Asa drops new single \u2018The Beginning\u2019 after 5 years break - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nigerian singer, songwriter, and recording artist, Asa Elemide a.k.a Asa, has released her first single, \u201cThe Beginning,\u2019\u2019 after five-year hiatus. 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