YEMI ALADE
Yemi Alade Live @ Paris 2022, L’Olympia
NIGERIA
YEMI ALADE
THE GODESS OF AFROBEATS
Yemi Alade is an award-winning Nigerian Afro-pop/R&B artist, actress and entertainer. She is the most successful singer on the African continent and has worked with international artists such as Rick Ross and Trey Songz, among others. She collaborated with Beyoncé in 2019 on the song "Don't Jealous Me," which is featured on the album The Lion King: The Gift. In addition, Alade became the first African artist to reach one million subscribers on YouTube in 2019 and her song “Johnny” currently holds the YouTube record for the most viewed music video by an African artist of all time with 117 million views. Yemi holds a recipe for success with releasing one hit single after the other and going viral each time.
Nigerian songstress Yemi Alade also bagged her first Grammy Awards, getting two nodes in the “Best Global Music Album” category with Angelique Kidjo’s ‘Mother Nature’ album and another in the “Best Latin Rock Album” category with Bomba Estero’s ‘Deja‘.
She won the MTV African Music Awards for Best female in 2015 and 2016 consecutively and was nominated for Artist of the Year in 2015, making her the first female to win the MAMAs for Best female consecutively twice and nominated for Artist of the Year.
In 2015, Alade was the first African female to be nominated for the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs)
She was nominated for the BET awards for Best International Act: Africa in 2015 and 2016. Yemi is also applauded for her creative and overwhelming stage performances, fashion and music videos.
She has won The Headies Award for Best Performer twice, 2018 and 2019. The slot was initiated at The Headies 2018 and she was the first artist to win the category.