Asa drops 'Bed of Stones’

Asa

Nigerian singer and songwriter, Asa, has dropped a new album.

Titled ‘Bed of Stones’, the album was released a couple of days ago on Deluxe CD’s, Vinyl and Vendors worldwide. It has been available for pre-order on iTunes.com since August 25, 2014.

Born Busola Elemide, the jailer crooner revealed that the songs in the album came from her life experiences, especially, the shock she felt coming off the road in 2012, after an incredibly long tour.

“I needed time to pull myself together. I toured for two years, gave everything I had every single night,” says Asa.

She further said that: “I had been the girl that was full of life, force and energy that people looked at for two hours on stage, and then congratulated backstage after the show. But I was going home alone, never really realizing how exhausting all that actually is.”

Having travelled to different places such as Lagos, Berlin, the USA, London and Paris, she said she wanted to feel human again, meet new people and do everything she always wanted to do before she hit 30. “I wanted to learn to swim, rent a car and drive from Nashville to New York and from New York to Los Angeles and I wanted to learn to skateboard and drive a motorcycle.”

Asa will soon be 32 years old; the artist was born in 1982 in Paris, France to her Nigerian parents. Her family returned to live in Nigeria when she was two. Aṣa grew up in Alagbole, a border town in Ogun State near Lagos, in the south-western part of Nigeria.

Since she embraced music as her profession, she has released many hit singles including "Fire in the Mountain” in 2009, “Jailer” in 2009 and "Be My Man" in 2010. She has dropped four album namely: Asa (Asha) in 2007, Live in Paris in 2009, Beautiful Imperfection in 2010 and the latest one, Bed of Stone in 2014.