Single At 36, Asa Reveals Why She Has A Thing For Tall And Dark Men-See Video

Nigerian-international singer, Bukola Elemide popularly known as Asa, who is still single at 36 has revealed why she has a thing for tall and dark men.

News Rain Nigeria gathered this recently when she was engaged in an interview with Ndani TV, where she noted that she had to look out for tall guys because growing up, all she saw was her short parents.

The International music star said: “I am crazy for tall guys. They could be dark. If you are dark, be very dark. Then, it takes me time to think, ‘Does he have a brain?’ If my future man is short, if I ever get married, I won’t complain. I do hope he is not short because my parents were short and I wasn’t happy about that.”

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Single At 36, Asa Reveals Why She Has A Thing For Tall And Dark Men

Speaking further, Asa stated that when she started her music career, she was wary of opinions about her voice.

“I just never trusted people; maybe it was because my father told me all the time that ‘you can’t trust people’. I think people just didn’t get me. When I started performing publicly, I didn’t come out as a singer. I came out as a dancer. That thing was inside me saying, ‘Why is your voice like this? Why do you sound like this? Why do you walk like this? Who do you think you are’? So, I just went into my world and performed to an imaginary audience. When my first album came out, I did not expect it was going to be that big. I was shy and slightly embarrassed. I thought I was not ready and still needed to do more work.”

Asa also added that patriarchy made it hard for women to succeed in the Nigerian music industry.

She said: “I am glad that more ladies are coming out and doing really awesome work. Yemi Alade, Tiwa Savage, Simi, Teni, Niniola, Tems, and others are awesome. Patriarchy makes it hard for women. We need more women and when we have more women, they would be more encouraged.”

Recall that Asa drew her first musical inspiration from her father’s music collection while he worked as a cinematographer. The collection included the music of Fela Kuti, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Aretha Franklin, King Sunny Ade, Miriam Makeba, Diana Ross, and Nina Simone.

Elemide attended Peter King’s School of Music where she learned how to play guitar in six months.

In 2004, she met Cobhams Emmanuel Asuquo, a songwriter and producer through her manager and friend, Janet Nwose. Cobhams thereafter became the producer of her debut studio album ‘Asa’.

At the age of 20, Asa went back to France to study at the IMFP school of Jazz music. To her surprise, her teachers told her to go on with her recordings because she was qualified and needed no schooling. In 2007, she took up the challenge and recorded her first single in Nigeria, ‘Eye Adaba’.

Eye Adaba interpreted as a dove is a solemn song full of hope, prayers, and a cry for peace in the country. In no time, the song gained world-wide acceptance and applause.

Afterward, Asa got signed to Naive Records. She worked together with Cobhams, Christopher Dupuoy, and Benjamin Constant to produce her first platinum album named after her, Asa.