Following a two-year long hiatus, Nonso Amadi returned his first 2022 track, Foreigner in February and visuals the next month. He follows up with the YouTube Red Carpet video premiere of his latest offering titled Different.
Featuring fellow Toronto-based R&B duo Majid Jordan, the catchy and vibrant record highlights the fusion of R&B and Afrobeats. The globally acclaimed, Nigerian singer, songwriter and producer describes Different as “…the feeling you get when you meet a girl you like in a room filled with other beautiful women — and how she stands out from the rest and makes you want to chase after her.”
On collaborating with Amadi, one half of the group — Majid Al Maskati says,
“We started working with Nonso because we were fans of one another’s music. We connected during the pandemic and met at Noble Studios in Toronto. From there we just started making a bunch of music together. Different is one of those songs that feels different, is different, and brought us to Nigeria for the first time, where we experienced something different as well.”
Nonso also shares his thoughts on working with the popular duo seen in the video below. “I had an instant musical chemistry when I first met Majid & Jordan to work on songs,” he says. “I found that every line I wrote, they would push me to go even further with it and be more descriptive in my words so as to paint a clear picture to the listener. To this date, I try to apply this movie-script-like method to every song. This was the case with Different and other songs we worked on.”
Following this new single, Nonso is set to perform at the prestigious MURAL Festival in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. The international street art festival, now in its tenth year, is an 11-day annual event that celebrates the democratization of urban art across the city of Montréal.
Watch the Different video, filmed in Nonso’s hometown of Lagos, Nigeria, where MTV Base Africa also recorded an episode for its “A Day In The Life” series.