Tiwa Savage Still Believes in Love

Nigerian female singer Tiwa Savage, has expressed her desire to fall in love. She made this known during her interview on Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music 1. Savage who was on the show to promote her single ‘Tales By Moonlight’ featuring Ghanaian artiste Amaarae, from her latest EP ‘Water & Garri’, said the song was about her desire for a fairy tale love.

“It’s a love song. ‘Tales By Moonlight’ was a popular TV programme when I was growing up in Nigeria and it was this lady or this man that used to tell stories. So it’s me saying I just want that fairy tale type of love. I don’t want to lose hope in just finding real love. I still believe in that. No matter how many times I’ve been heartbroken, I still am a sucker for love. I still believe there’s still that fairytale Cinderella ending.”

Savage’s marriage came to a messy end in 2016, after she and her ex-husband, Tunji Balogun popularly known as Teebillz aired their infidelity on social media. Their wedding in 2013 was a spectacle that hugged many headlines. However, their brief union produced a son.

In her 2020 album ‘Celia’, she sang about her failed marriage in the track ‘Us’.
The new five-track EP featured international acts like American rapper Nas and singer Brandy which Savage described as her biggest influence.

“Brandy is literally the reason why I started singing. As a kid, just listening to ‘I Want To Be Down’,…every interview I’ve ever had, she’s my favourite, my all-time, my mentor, everything. And I’ve been trying to work with her for years. It was a dream of mine. And when it happened this time, it’s not even just music, we connected like sisters. She’s someone that I speak to literally every other day. It’s beyond my expectation,” she gushed.