Nigeria female artists Lady Donli, Bella Alubo, Tomi Owo, Mz Kiss in Red Hot HIV/AIDS battle

OSHUN

Exciting Nigeria female artists Lady Donli, Bella Alubo, Tomi Owo, Mz Kiss have currently

undertaken a very worthwhile fight against HIV/AIDS which remains one of the world’s biggest problems and is of very huge concern in Nigeria.

To this end, they joined hands with the non-profit, Red Hot Org, for an EP, Kele-le, to raise awareness and provide financial support for women’s health clinics in Nigeria and their fight against the country’s growing HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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According to the official press release of the initiative: “In Nigeria today, over 1 million women are living with HIV/AIDS with women aged 15-49 twice as likely to be living with HIV than men and women aged 30-39 with the highest prevalence of HIV in the country and nearly half of the women living with HIV/AIDS are being treated with viral suppression.

Bella Alubo

“The Kele-le project wants to help provide resources to the infrastructures of change tackling this crisis and the essential work that these organisations are doing on the ground. All funds raised by the EP will be matched by Red Hot Org and distributed to organisations such as Wellbeing Foundation Africa, RAISE Foundation, Women Trafficking & Child Labour Eradication Foundation, Freehearts Africa Reachout Foundation and the Social Welfare Network Initiative.”

Kele-le is the latest in a series of over 20 compilation projects since 1990 that Red Hot Org has curated to raise awareness and money for organisations on the front lines of global health pandemics, epidemics and health crises.

Mz Kiss

Over its 25 years, the charity organisation has worked with Bon Iver, Arcade Fire, Blood Orange, Chance The Rapper, Wu Tang Clan, Madonna, Nirvana, U2, Childish Gambino and many others, curated seminal projects such as Red Hot + Dance, No Alternative, Red Hot + Riot, Dark Was The Night and Red Hot + Fela, been championed by the likes of Billboard, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, NME, NY Times and donated millions of dollars to health organisations around the world.

Tomi Owo opens the Kele-le EP with the stripped back Go On Woman led by her captivating vocals and uplifting life-affirming lyrics encouraging her fellow women to be all they’re made to be before Mz Kiss brings the party vibes with the instant afrobeats hit and dancefloor filler You Look Good in which OSHUN add their afro-futuristic hip-soul elements to excellent effect.

Tomi Owo

Lady Donli then takes us on a lush neo-soul ride with Kauna as she serenades about love, setting us free in her own unique pan-African rockstar style and Bella Alubo ends it with the infectious alt-pop leaning track Loneliest Girl In The World driven by her exquisite pop-soul fusion sound and catchy rap-like flow.

The exciting 4-track Kele-le EP will mark the first of several collaborative EPs from Red Hot Org that will be showcasing the new wave of afrobeats and afro-centred music coming from the best, most influential and most forward-thinking female artists in Nigeria in a bid to empower young female artists to lead the conversations about women’s health rights in Africa.

Lady Donli

The word ‘kele’ means girlfriend in Nigerian pidgin and it’s in the project’s title to celebrate the women-only compilation project.

Its use becomes even more remarkable as it’s also part of the word ‘kelele’ which means unignorable sound in Swahili and is therefore representative of the undeniable impact of afrobeats music on the world stage today driven by contributions from female artists such as the five women at the helm of this EP.

Kele-le artwork

Kele-le tracklist

1. Tomi Owo – Go On Woman

2. Mz Kiss – You Look Good (featuring OSHUN)

3. Lady Donli – Kauna

4. Bella Alubo – Loneliest Girl In The World

Kele-le press photos: https://smarturl.it/KelelePhotos

Connect with Kele-le artists

Bella Alubo - Instagram // Facebook // Twitter

Lady Donli - Instagram -- Facebook -- Twitter

Tomi Owo - Instagram // Facebook // Twitter

Mz Kiss - Instagram -- Facebook -- Twitter

OSHUN - Instagram // Facebook // Twitter

Connect with Red Hot Org

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redhotorg

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/redhotorg

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/redhotorg

Website: https://www.redhot.org

Download Kele-le on Bandcamp here