Asa set for MTN Bush Fire Festival

France-based Nigerian  international utility singer, Asa, will top the list of other performers at this year’s MTN Bush Fire Festival slated for Swaziland in May.

The artiste whose brand of music [a combination of jazz, pop and highlife], according to the organizers, will mount the stage alongside other top hitters from Africa.

The organizers revealed that the festival will keep reflecting the African ethos, with a strong focus on regional music, culture and arts.

‘’Asa is known for her soulful voice, powerful and seen by some as one that captivates with her dreadlocked hair, quirky glasses and guitar,” the organizers gave reason for chosing her.

They continued that ‘’Asa has earned a place as the de-facto patron saint of the cerebral boho-chic Nigerian. Her style is unique – lying somewhere between pop and soul – and just a twist of reggae.’’

Asa features mainly English lyrics, but she also sings in Yoruba, spoken in some West African countries but widely spoken in Nigeria.

‘’Her songs say a lot about our melancholy, our dreams, our thoughts and our reflections. It almost feels like they have been part of our lives she wrote and sang them,’’ they concluded.

The MTN Bush Fire Festival this year will bring artistes from Europe like Puts Marie from Switzerland and Austria’s Aramboa whose electronic soul music various beats.

The festival was the winner of the African Responsible Tourism Awards Most Sustainable Event of 2017 and was also hailed by the CNN in 2016 as ‘one of the seven African music festivals you really have to see.’

It is listed by the BBC as a ‘top African Festival.’