Grammy-Award winner Temilade Openiyi professionally known as Tems in an interview that surfaced online discloses how she met award-winning Nigerian singer Wizkid.
During the interview, Tems stressed that he met singer Wizkid in the year 2019 when she had only three songs to her name in the entertainment industry.
Shedding light on meeting Wizkid, Tems said that she met Wizkid when she released her hit song “Try Me” in the year 2019. She said that Jameson offered to sponsor the song’s music video and they came to Nigeria to market the music video as well.
Singer Tems added that it was when she was in Nigeria for the promotion of “Try Me” music video that she was told that Wizkid wanted to see her.
She said that she met Wizkid in the year 2019 and they recorded the hit song “Essence” together in 2019, then the song was released in the year 2020 by Wizkid off the “Made in Lagos” album.
Tems while speaking stressed that she did not actually dream big until she found out that the song was blowing up already and top people started reaching out to her via DM including Beyonce.
The singer shared that, at the time, she was living alone, and whenever she stepped out, everyone recognized her, smiling and waving. She added that the song was a huge hit, and constantly played in clubs.
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___highstarr: Everybody needs a Wiz for that Global thing yunno🖤🦅.
betapikinchikodili: 🔥🔥🔥 big wiz effect and later some fuulish people will say popsy did not made terms fuuls.
captain_mavins: WIZKID no dey make noise 😢❤️🦅.
emen.ikeprosper: Later now dem go say Wizkid no help tems lol funny bingos 😂.
_sharon_____x: Tunde legnut no fit post this tin.
treypeter’: When the biggest steps in, you set for life ❤️🦅🏃🏽♂️