Somadina was born in Nigeria to Nigerian parents; she grew up in the Netherlands; she schools in the UK; she has Indian and Chinese best friends; she had a Russian piano teacher. “Do you also have a French chef?” I ribbed; she laughed. Her universal outlook, which suffuses her music, too, is at once enviable.

Nigerian singer-songwriter Somadina premiered a new song “Rolling Loud” on BBC Radio 1’s Future Artists with Jack Saunders. The song is the first single of 2020, following “SUPERSOMA” released last October. The track was written by Somadina, and ADEY, who also produced it. Somadina told Jack Saunders about the song, “This song was just inspired