WAJE Is Living Her Dreams

Female songbird Aituaje Iruobe, also known as WAJE has been around for the past half-decade, contributing to the commercial success of artistes like Banky W, M.I and P Square. Banky W’s Thief My Kele, M.I’s One Naira and P Square’s 2009 remake of Omoge Me largely owe their successes to WAJE’s pretty flawless singing ability.  Her vocal backing to these songs rendered them the kind of touch a potential hit song requires.

M.I’s One Naira however, was the song that introduced her to a broader market; she virtually took it home, proving a fine talent in transit. One Naira became the song she would be known for; her appeal grew afterwards. What the collaboration with M.I, regarded Nigeria’s most successful rap act of the last decade, did to her, was to build her up for bigger associations.
You can call her the female equivalent of Chocolate City act Brymo; she perfectly fits that description. Just like Brymo, WAJE also offers that lifeline to a song that needs a complete, if not different feel or interpretation to get it home.
The Nigerian music industry has a fairly balanced ratio of successful, mainstream female and male musicians. The industry has conspired to strike a fair balance across board, allowing far greater numbers of female musicians to join the community. 
Omoge Me was more appreciated after release, because of the way it finally came across; P Square found a better act in her. The duo had seen her perform at a concert in Enugu, Nigeria, and fallen for her craft. Later, she sampled one of their songs and sent it to them for appraisal.  They loved it, and that sparked the beginning of the creation of the hit remake of Omoge Me. She also got featured on the song Do Me. That also has its accompanying success story.
Her 2009 single Kolo got a lot of rotation on rural-urban radio, just as four others So Inspired, Na The Way, For A Minute and I Wish, produced by local hands Paul Okoye and Papi J. Kolo was released months after she had taken part in the MTV Base Reality television show Advanced Warning, which was offering a platform to artistes on the verge of a commercial breakthrough. She was first runner up