{"id":42806,"date":"2017-03-02T17:33:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/the-nigerian-superstar-wizkid-just-released-his-new-single\/"},"modified":"2020-09-27T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T08:28:44","slug":"the-nigerian-superstar-wizkid-just-released-his-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/the-nigerian-superstar-wizkid-just-released-his-new-single\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizkid unveils \u2018Sweet Love\u2019 video just after he signs to RCA\/Sony Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5052 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wizkid-sweet-love.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1917\" height=\"822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wizkid-sweet-love.jpg 1917w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wizkid-sweet-love-759x325.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wizkid-sweet-love-1010x433.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wizkid-sweet-love-1440x617.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wizkid-sweet-love-661x283.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wizkid-sweet-love-465x199.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wizkid-sweet-love-375x161.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>The Nigerian superstar Wizkid just released his new single.<\/h3>\n<p>After a mega world hit with<strong> Drake<\/strong> (One Dance), <strong>Wizkid<\/strong> signs an exclusive multi-album deal with\u00a0RCA Records\/Sony Music International. The 26 years old Afrobeats singer\u00a0is definitely the one\u00a0who&#8217;s bringing African Music to the world.<\/p>\n<p>His new single \u201cSweet Love\u201d is a reggae-inspired track. \u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to describe what I do, since I work with rhythms from Afro-Beat, reggae, hip-hop, dance hall and others,\u201d Wizkid explains to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/7708975\/wizkid-signs-rca-records-sony-music-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The music video is made up from his African live shows footage. \u201c[It] will give my fans a real insight and feel of me performing back home,\u201d Wizkid\u00a0told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2017\/03\/01\/wizkid-sweet-love-video-record-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fader<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fela Kuti<\/strong> has always been an inspiration to Wizkid. So he decides to show some love using the words of the\u00a0Afrobeat&#8217;s King on \u201cSweet Love\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yFTaNokK4cU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian superstar Wizkid just released his new single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[20359,23450],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42806"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42806"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}