
Rapper Chika got people thinking, after she revealed that she and the legendary singer Stevie Wonder used a video chat app for meetings during the pandemic.tion for gatherings during the pandemic.
But she assured the shocked crowd that the visual component “was for me, not him,” at a listening party for her debut album, “Samson,” in New York on Wednesday July 19.
Wonder and the Warner Records blossoming rapper captivated up a friendship in 2020, at a time she described as one of her loneliest moments due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She said Wonder shared stories and personal anecdotes that had her feeling “like he’s my homegirl.”
“I felt like I had my dream taken away from me in the pandemic. One thing that did happen to me was meeting Stevie,” she said during an interview with music journalist Peter Berry.
The two were so close that, he even offered her an advice beyond the music business by telling her:
‘Before you leave this earth, you need to have a child.’ Me, Chika.”
Meanwhile, Chika’s debut album, “Samson,” will be out on July 28.
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The “Ribbon In The Sky” singer also made him into a fan. He was so dazzled with her music, he requested that she be a part of “Samson,” her new album motivated by the scriptural story of Samson and Delilah.
She said that Stevie Wonder pulled up to the studio to listen to “Samson” and “in the wake of getting to perhaps track 18 out of 20, he snatched my arm and pulled me in, and expressed out loud, ‘What do you need from me?’”
“Eventually, he was like… ‘I have to be on this record,’” she added. “It was nuts!”
Stevie Wonder is featured at the end of the album on the song “Get Here.” Chika described their recording experience as “just two spirits that understand one another and he wanting… to be beside me as I enter this chapter and exit the last one.”