Editor's Info
Iyeoka’s rich, wistful voice and masterful grasp of lyrical language make an album that’s almost a transcendent experience.
The hit album “Say Yes” by Iyeoka is now being released as a highquality vinyl version (180 g) in gatefold.
Including the YouTube hit “Simply Falling” with over 216 Mio clicks on YouTube
Slam poetry, rap battles, singing, song writing and drumming. Iyeoka (read: ee-yo-kah) is well versed in many expressive arts, but in essence she is a storyteller and poet. “My goal is very simple”, says the US Nigerian American, “I want to move the world, one poem at a time”. She does this enchantingly well with her album “Say Yes ®evolved”. In poems set to music Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo (her full name) reveals herself to be a strong, self-confident woman of the modern world. She tells tales of love and relationships in the 21st century and philosophizes about the daily struggle of life and being a woman in a post-feminist world digging deeply and personally into her African roots.
Musically Iyeoka handles expertly a wide variety of styles from electronic soul “Break Down Mode” to technofied R'n'B “Broken Hearts Anthem (Walk Away)”, from energetic dance inducing grooves “The Yellow Brick Road Song”, to a more jazzy “Happily Ever After”, from melodic soft rock “Say Yes”, to pop “Soundtrack to Life” and reggae “Testify”. She certainly has presence and shines out with a silky smooth elegance reminiscent of Sadé “This Time around”, “Simply Falling”. This woman has real all-round talent and she knows how to use it!
Iyeoka was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Nigerian parents. After leaving school she studied pharmacy at Northeastern University and then worked as a pharmacist. At the same time she was developing her artistic in....... więcej