American Actor Rotimi Set To DropsAn Amapiano Track. lurotimi Akinosho, known professionally as Rotimi is an actor, singer and a songwriter. His fans also know him as Andre Coleman from the American crime hit-series, Power.
While he had already tapped into other genres, he said he wanted to try something different when he hopped onto the dominating amapiano genre from Mzansi. “I worked with Akon and Nektunez, an incredible producer, and we wanted to make a record that felt good and I love the amapiano vibe, so it was just the energy in the studio that felt so infectious. I wanted to put my style mixed with this vibe and to me it felt really good, and just see what comes out of it,” he said.
The American star is full of excitement to drop his new amapiano song, Make You Say, featuring Nektunez. “And Make You Say came out and Nektunes has success with the amapiano sound as well, so it was a no-brainer but it was just how can I add my flair to the sound like this? And Make You Say was born.”
He revealed that the song was recorded in Atlanta, at Akon’s house, and he will be dropping the music video – which was shot in Nigeria – soon. “The choreography was so beautiful, we had a bunch of about 200 dancers on the video and we were inspired by just the South African energy, it was just so beautiful. I feel like my purpose is to bring this sound [amapiano] that is so dope to the United States and let people know and understand how beautiful the music is in the instrumentation because it hasn’t really caught on in America yet.
“So, I feel like my job is to be the bridge to just show that the world is bigger than what we know in there. That’s why I say we should stay as authentic as possible and I wish I was able to come to South Africa but I was held back in the States.”
