Nigeria: Simi releases new album Lost and Found

The 14-track album follows her 2022 release To Be Honest. It was heralded by the singles ‘All I Want’, ‘Men Are Crazy’ featuring Tiwa Savage and ‘Borrow Me Your Baby’ featuring Falz.

The songstress describes the project as a journey to rediscover her connection with music, melody and love stories.

“For most of my life, I have enjoyed the privilege of knowing myself deeply, unwaveringly, truly,” she said. “ In more recent years, I have also endured the discomfort of losing myself. Sometimes, to make room for something else that I needed to be – other times, because I could not, for the life of me, find my way. I felt like a stranger to myself. This version of me has been the hardest one to look at in the mirror.

“Making this album is a symbol of finding parts of myself again that I hoped I hadn’t lost permanently. I don’t believe that we ever stop finding ourselves. If you’re willing to look, there’s always more. This is a tribute to the things we continue to find and rediscover.”

Simi, who is also a sound engineer and actress, is behind well-known songs like ‘TIFF’ (2014), ‘Jamb Question’ (2015) and ‘Duduke’ (2020) as well as the Restless II (2020) EP. She partnered with Falz on the 2016 joint-album Chemistry. In 2022, she became the first female African act to hit 100 million plays on Audiomack.