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By Emmanuel Adeleke
Global streaming platform, Spotify, has announced Nigerian singer and songwriter, Simisola Ogunleye, popularly known as Simi, as Spotify EQUAL Africa music programme ambassador for July.
Spotify’s head of music for sub-Saharan Africa, Phiona Okumu, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, in Lagos.
The announcement followed the release of Simi’s latest album, “TBH (To Be Honest),” which came out in June.
Okumu said that Simi joined other Nigerian artistes like Tiwa Savage, Ayra Starr, Asa, and FAVE to be part of EQUAL Africa, which aims to spotlight and amplify the voices of talented African female artistes making waves in the music scene.
“Spotify welcomes Simi to the EQUAL programme which aims to foster gender equality and provide a platform to celebrate influential female artistes.
“We are proud to welcome Simi to the EQUAL programme, and we are so excited to see where her talent continues to take her from strength to strength,” Okumu said.
She added that Simi had also become the second African artist after Tiwa Savage, to be named as an EQUAL global and EQUAL Africa artiste.