Superstar singer Aṣa has spoken about her battles against different types of prejudice in her home city, Paris, and the country she grew up in, Nigeria
"In Paris I don't think about gender," she told CNN's Zain Asher at the Access Bank International Women's Day conference in Lagos earlier this month."I have to fight being from Nigeria, being from Africa ... gender is not a problem. In Nigeria, I have to fight gender."The multi-award-winning artist, whose fifth studio album,"V" was released in February, said her gender had a profound effect on her behavior at the outset of her career.
Asa's musical upbringing 09:37Aṣa said that these choices led men to question her sexuality."I'd have men comment, 'Are you even a woman? What's wrong with you?'" She says that she also had to battle the perception that, as a female artist, she must have"slept her way to the top.""People think if you're a female artist you're sleeping around, so I had to prove that to family," she told CNN.
The night Burna Boy became a Hollywood star 03:19The star said she now takes a relaxed approach to relationships."Trust me, at one time, when I was, I think 28, every male that went past me, I was always looking -- 'Is he the one?' 'Is he the one?' It hasn't worked, and I'm letting God do his job, you know?"Now, with five hit albums behind her, Aṣa believes women still do not receive equal opportunities.
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