Canada Based Nigerian Artist Kelly Anthony Drops Single 'Pagans' Featuring Sarkodie.

Canada-based Nigerian singer Kelly Anthony has dropped his latest single Pagans featuring Ghanaian celebrated star Sarkodie and vocalist Larusso. This is the result of Kelly immersing in the sonic fragments that are coming out of Lagos – and the wider afrobeats scene – in the last 10 years.
As the world comes to grips with the altering effect of the Internet, life everywhere is changing. Influences that used to take ages to spread everywhere have started to go across the world in less time than it has ever happened in human history. Among the things that spread across the world in the 2010s was afrobeats, the soup of sounds that partially remade the global pop climate, this new masterpiece is a product of the changing times.

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Long before this occurred, Canadian-Nigerian singer, Kelly Anthony, had been holding onto his Nigerian identity as an anchor while he navigated life in Toronto, and music has always been the channel to express how he felt.

Atop a muted beat produced by rising producer London, Kelly and his collaborators make an ode to his dreams and aspirations while taking note of the naysayers who are waiting on his downfall. After taking over the opening stretch,

Kelly cedes the floor to Larusso who weaves a smooth verse about thriving regardless of what is said about him. By the closing stretch of the song, Sarkodie contributes a vociferous verse delivered in a fusion of English and Twi before Kelly comes in again to deliver the song’s pointed chorus.

The first song from a forthcoming project that is expected to herald Kelly’s evolution into the afro-fusion space, “PAGANS” sees Kelly achieve his goal of coming into his own as a creative, crafting euphonious Afropop records, and trying to inspire the next generation of African across the diaspora.
Pagans ft. Sarkodie & Larruso

Born in Benin, Edo state, Kelly Anthony spent the first 12 years of his life picking up the cultural imprints of the famous South-west city before he travelled to Toronto, Canada, to begin a new life in a new city. In Canada, the young man was immersed in a city bubbling with a myriad of cultures from places across the world. While there, he began to get into music, first as part of a local choir he joined before he became heavily influenced by the swoony, tear-jerking R&B music of the late 90s and early 2000s.

Through this all, Kelly has maintained a grip on his Nigerian identity, learning to speak Edo fluently after moving to Canada courtesy his mother. Using the language as an anchor, Kelly has tried to keep in touch with Nigeria over the years as well as trying to learn more about his culture and how much of a role it plays in who he is becoming as a person.

Over time, Kelly’s involvement with music has blossomed from a passive passion to expressing his thoughts and feelings with music, working primarily within R&B, gospel, and pop spectrums. His first song was released as a 14-year-old on MySpace, and since then, he has gone on to drop a series of songs like “Unstoppable,” “Maye,” “Snake,” and “Elevate.” He has also evolved as an artist and a man, opening up his artistry to include African elements that saw him open for afrobeats star, Davido, on the Canadian leg of the Nigerian’s worldwide tour.

Kelly’s upcoming project, African Prince, documents him coming into his African heritage via silky R&B-influenced cuts that see him croon melodiously over sun-splashed beats crafted by Kel P among a number of producers. The project’s soon-to-be-released lead single, “Untimely,” sees him craft an euphoric bop about a love interest in tandem with “Vory,” displaying a cadence that pays home to afropop’s extemporaneous quality.
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