By Iminza Keboge
Published May 29, 2019

Nikuamini is a tempo-shifting dance song that focuses on Ashleye Scarlette's synergy as a vocalist. It flits seamlessly between her breezy tones and gruffer deliveries to create a vibrant soundscape soaring with shimmering synths and groovy beats.Recording artist Ashleye Scarlette has just released a stand-alone single based on her own experiences.

Titled Nikuamini and the first track of the artist in 2019, this dance-tinged ballad stresses Ashleye Scarlett’s expressive vocal tone as she flits between airy breathiness and powerful, sweeping belts.

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Nikuamini relays the artist’s sense of assurance and focuses on a relationship that could end in sorrow despite her putting her trust in it.

The artist sings of how she wants to hold onto the relationship even though she knows it is something she must turn away from.

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A deep Afro-pop track, Nikuamini is a tempo-shifting dance song that focuses on Ashleye Scarlette’s synergy as a vocalist. It flits seamlessly between her breezy tones and gruffer deliveries to create a vibrant soundscape soaring with shimmering synths and groovy beats.

Afro-pop singer, Ashleye Scarlette, releases her first stand-alone single in 2019. The music video for the song bring even more focus on the theme as portrayed in the lyrics with the director capturing scenes of the singer in conversation with her lover and then back to the performer, doing away with the flash and flare often associated with the world of pop and instead pans over the normal union of a couple in argument.

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No sooner had Ashleye Scarlette completed secondary school than she recorded her first single,It’s You featuring Clastar, in December 2016. She followed this up with Catch my Breath and I Do.

All the tracks of Ashleye Scarlette have LOVE as the main theme running through them.

Well, shall we dance?

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