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Noella Wiyaala, or simply Wiyaala, knew exactly what she was going to do with her life at the ripe old age of 5 years old. She convinced her mother to let her perform a street show outside of a local bar in Tamele, Ghana where things went so well that the crowd who gathered started giving her mother money in appreciation of this young girls raw talent. After that performance she told her mother, “I will become a singer and I will earn money from it”. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Wiyaala">R
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- Wiyaala in 2014
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- Noella Wiyaala
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- Dance, pop, Afro pop
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- vocals, guitar
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- Singer-songwriter, designer, actress, model, athlete
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- Djimba World Records, JTV Digital
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- Jupitar, Black N Peach, The Djimba World Band
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Noella Wiyaala Nwadei (known under the stage name Wiyaala; born on 22 December 1986) is a Ghanaian Afro-pop singer-songwriter who sings in her native language Sissala and Waala dialects and English, often combining all three languages within her songs. Wiyaala means "the doer" in the Sissala dialect. She achieved fame with her single "Make Me Dance" and her androgynous image. After making her name in reality shows in Accra, she established a solo career in 2013 with the hit single "Rock My Body",(Dance move was initiated by Van Calebs) which won her two awards at the 2014 first edition of the All Africa Music Awards, the Most Promising Artiste in Africa and Revelation of The African Continent. Wiyaala is also associated with UNICEF Ghana and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection's campaigns against child marriage, child poverty, health and sanitation. She headlined the 15th London African Music Festival in London. In March 2021, she was among the Top 30 Most Influential Women in Music by the 3Music Awards Women's Brunch.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wiyaala” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.