For years, Nigerian pop singer, Seyi Shay , has brought smiles to the faces of her teeming fans but in a chat with Saturday Beats, she opened up on the void in her heart which she says nothing can fill .
She said that most nights before going to bed she thinks of her dead mother and some of her last words to her .

She said, “ Currently all my father does is to pray for me. Before my mother died , her last words to me were that I should become all I can be and I would eventually make it in Nigeria . I really miss my mother and I wish she could see everything that I am doing now. I wish she could see that I have not given up despite the setbacks I encounter in my job . I think my mother would be proud of me.
“ If my mother was alive, I am sure she would always ask me when I would introduce her to my fiancé but before her death , she never pressured me about marriage. Before she died , she told me that I should make sure I have done everything I wanted to do before any other thing . She said I should not let any man stop my dream . That is what she said to me. Now, I am ready for marriage, I even sang about it in my new project.”
Speaking more about her recent project which is her new EP, Electric Package , she told
Saturday Beats that she has gone back to her roots with the body of work . “ I started the process of this EP in November; I recorded over 20 songs but picked the best six songs based on the story I want to tell . I picked the most indigenous songs because I want to connect with my roots again . People think I am too foreign , so I wanted to show them that I am not. The first song I released was ‘Loving Your Way , and this EP goes back to that sound which I started with.
“ Everybody is doing the Shaku Shaku dance and it took me a long time to learn the dance . D’banj taught me how to dance it and I am glad to say that I can do the dance step . It was not till I learnt how to dance it that I realised that it is quite easy . People think it is about the footwork but it is more about the hand movement ; if you get the hand and head movement right, the footwork would be easy, ” she said.