How I got past my 6-month long writer’s block – Ayra Starr

• Ayra Starr has verbally expressed how the creation and circumstances surrounding her sophomore album, ‘The Year I Turned 21’ came to be.
• In a recent interview, the superstar singer disclosed that she had writer’s block which went on for 6 months.
• Ayra spoke on how she was able to overcome and get past it.

Grammy-nominated Nigerian singer and songwriter, Ayra Starr, has opened up about her struggle with writer’s block and how it affected her.

The ‘Rush’ crooner said she couldn’t write songs for about six months until she received the demo of her song ’21’ off her new album, ‘The Year I Turned 21,’ from a friend as a birthday present which opened her mind. She said in a viral podcast interview:

“I got the demo of ’21’ from a friend as a birthday gift the day I turned 21,”

“I had told him that it has been so hard… I was having a writer’s block for six months. I couldn’t write about myself then he gave me the first version of the song in a demo as my birthday gift. Recording ’21’ was quite easy for me, I did it in one-take. I was even lying down with the mic in my hand.

“’21’ is special because it is what opened my mind to the rest of the album. With ’21’ I started to see myself again the way I wanted to see myself.”

Still on album releases, Award-winning Nigerian music star, Yemi Eberechi Alade, has opened up on why she named her forthcoming album ‘Rebel Queen’.

Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos on Friday, the ‘Johnny’ crooner said she is a true rebel in words and action, and the body of work is a combination of her thoughts, melodies and truck load of nostalgia.

Yemi Alade also noted that she made the album because she got tired of the “monotony in genre and style” of Afrobeats music.

The songstress further disclosed that the 16-track album theme encompasses feminity, liberation and consciousness in life.