3/30/2024 0 Comments Asa awe song![]() As you can already tell, Asa tends to capture the complexity of humanity in stories. Asa is not merely a word-stringer who cares only about how catchy the rhymes are. Examples: there’s Akinyele, the stubborn lawyer who wants to eat his cake and have it, the young wife in Bimpe, whose inlaws won’t leave her alone, and of course, the prayer we all ask of God : Satan be Gone. If you’ve never heard of Asa, I’ll say she’s a storyteller. ![]() I might have needed Awe and Bamidele to survive the past year but did without them, dissatisfied by studio recordings and how they paled compared to a live event. ![]() I would’ve seen her a fifth time in April 2020, but the pandemic happened, and I was distraught. The last time at an event where she was the *headline performer. A third time with friends at her second Live in Lagos concert. I returned to my house in the thick of the night, baptised with passion, touched by an angel. The second time was at her first Live in Lagos concert the same year - I won a 5k ticket and went alone. It was too brief to be an encounter, almost a wink, but love stories say the first time’s a charm there’s no better love story than this. I’ve seen Asa at least four times before: once at a literary event - my first time. An obvious decision made months before, in a little Norwich bedroom. This past weekend, I saw Asa live in London.
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