Woo, Singer Omawumi Found 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."