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Yemi Alade, born Yemi Eberechi Alade in Nigeria on 13 March 1989, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, musician and actor. She was educated at the University of Lagos and began her career in 2005, working in African popular music and singing. Her native language is Yoruba, and she also speaks English, Nigerian Pidgin and French.
Alade has received the MTV Video Music Awards and the Nigeria Entertainment Awards.
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Film & TV
Acting · Nigeria
Known for
- Fatoumata Diawara : carte blanche — Self2022
- Global Goal: Unite for Our Future | The Concert — Self2020
- Black Is King2020
- Beyoncé Presents: Making The Gift — Self2019
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- Nigeria
- Active from
- 1989
Discography
- King of Queens2014
- Mama Africa2016
- Mama Africa (The Diary of an African Woman)2016
- Mama Afrique2017
- Black Magic2018
- How I Feel2018
- Number One2018
- Woman Of Steel2019
- Empress2020
- African Baddie2022
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 62,565
- Total plays
- 733,241
Tags
Yemi Eberechi Alade (born 13 March 1989), simply known as Yemi Alade, is a Nigerian Afropop singer and songwriter. She gained prominence after winning the Peak Talent Show in 2009, and is best known for her hit single "Johnny". <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Yemi+Alade">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK
· 2021 · cited 4,163x
- A Vulnerability Assessment of Fish and Invertebrates to Climate Change on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf
· 2016 · cited 441x
- Effect of delivery room routines on success of first breast-feed
· 1990 · cited 310x
- An unbiased ranking of murine dietary models based on their proximity to human metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)
· 2024 · cited 215x
- Hyperparameter Tuning in Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Review
· 2024 · cited 190x
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Quotes
- ““Growing up in Nigeria I have known malaria forever and experienced the disease countless times, so I understand how this disease robs so many children of their ability to go to school and why malaria is a major cause of school absenteeism. I have also lost many loved ones to malaria and that’s why I’m here – because we can end one of the biggest, preventable killer diseases of all time.””
- “To achieve full perfection, you must keep working at your dream.””
- “Missing the message and losing the goal is a huge subtraction!”
- “Keep working......the world is watching! Your Time will come. Prepare Yourself”
- “"Consistency …… you will get your results ….BELIEVE””
- “Criticism always come from people that haven’t even done half of what you have done while encouragement seems to always come from people that have done more than you have.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Yemi Eberechi Alade , ( 1989-03-13 ) 13 March 1989 (age 37)
- Alma mater
- University of Lagos
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Awards
- Full list
- Genres
- Afropop R&B world
- Instrument
- Vocals
- Years active
- 2005–present
- Labels
- Effyzzie Music Group Rebel Movement Universal Music Africa
- Website
- yemialadeofficial .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Nigeria
- Place of birth
- Nigeria
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- University of Lagos
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- Yoruba
- Field of work
- singing
- Hair colour
- black hair
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.yemialadeofficial.com
- Image
- Yemi Alade studio portrait.jpg
- Height
- 1.65
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1989-03-13
- Commons category
- Yemi Alade
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- birth name
- Yemi Eberechi Alade
- social media followers
- 2470000
- name in native language
- Yemi Alade
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
Yemi Eberechi Alade (listen; born 13 March 1989), known professionally as Yemi Alade, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, actress and activist from the Akoko part of Ondo State. Her music is a mixture of Afropop, highlife, dancehall, pop and R&B, and has been of influence in several countries across Africa. She sings in English, Igbo, Pidgin, Yoruba, French, Swahili and Portuguese.
Alade won the Peak Talent Show in 2009 after which she signed to Effyzzie Music Group, and had a hit with her single "Johnny" in 2014. Following the releases of her albums King of Queens and Mama Africa, Alade embarked on world tours consecutively. In 2016, she debuted on Billboard at No 4 on the Next Big Sound Chart She won the MTV African Music Awards for Best female in 2015 and 2016 consecutively and was nominated for Artiste of the Year in 2015, making her the first female to win the MAMAs for Best female consecutively twice and nominated for Artiste of the Year. In 2015, Alade was the first African female to be nominated for the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) and she was nominated for the BET awards for Best International Act: Africa in 2015 and 2016. Alade is also applauded for her creative and overwhelming stage performances, fashion and music videos, She has won The Headies Award for Best Performer twice, in 2018 and 2019. The slot was initiated at The Headies 2018 and she was the first artiste to win the category.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yemi Alade” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.