Davido talks new album '5ive,' helping lead the Afrobeats craze

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Davido talks new album '5ive,' helping lead the Afrobeats craze  Davido, the Grammy-nominated artist who has multiple 100 million-streamed songs on Spotify and is often credited as playing a vital role in the global expansion of Afrobeats, drops his new album, “5ive,” on Friday.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/04/17/davido-talks-new-album-5ive-helping-lead-the-afrobeats-craze  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Davido, who is an iconic musician from Nigeria, in his oven credited with playing a vital role

00:05in the global expansion of Afrobeats, has dropped a new album by the name Five. The name Five

00:11is attributed to the number of albums he has released since he began his career. While

00:16speaking about the new album, Davido said that it is symbolic to the different cultures

00:20and people that have been listening to his music.

00:22I went to go and do more research on the number Five and what it entails, which is like

00:29symbol of hope, grace, change, growth, you know, stuff like that. So I feel like this

00:35album is not only going to change a lot of things for me, but also going to change a lot

00:39of things for the culture as well, like Latin, Caribbean, African, Francophone, French, you

00:47know what I'm saying? So we trust every, every bit and corner of the world with this one.

00:52Davido also spoke about his family ties that have also helped influence his new album.

00:57He began with 80 potential songs, then crowdsourced opinions from family and friends using a ranking

01:02mechanism to help create the album.

01:04You know, after, you know, the crazy loss we had, God gave us twins, a boy and a girl.

01:09So life is just different now, you know what I'm saying? The importance of family and,

01:15you know, good people around you, I feel like the energy is very, very important. And I feel

01:19like that energy is what I use to record this album.

01:22As songs and songs from Africa making their way across the globe as Afrobeat is the hot

01:28genre of the moment. Davido says he enjoys hearing non-Africans try their hand at it, but

01:34wants to make sure the rightful people get their due.

01:36I'll tell you this much, they can't do it better than us. So I tell you this much, like I said,

01:43I play, I say this to Chris every time I play around. I'm like, Chris, you, I can't sing

01:46R&B like you, but never buy your life, you can't sing Afrobeat like me. So, um, I don't

01:51see any problem with it as long as it's done right. And, and everybody's credit is due. Like

01:56I'd rather see them, if they do it, at least come use an Afrobeat, like African producer type

02:01stuff like that. And that's been done in the past.

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