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Narrated bySPINALL

One Call

SPINALL, Omah Lay, T...

The story of this song starts with the story of how I met Omah Lay in the first place. I found Omah Lay on YouTube... I stumbled on a song in 2019

and I started looking for him all over the place. This was before we went into lockdown (COVID-19). It was before I left Nigeria for my tour in

2019. Anyway, finally I connected with somebody and they introduced me to Omah Lay. When we met at the studio, he came late and I was one hour late

to my flight. So I was like, damn I really like this guy, but this international flight is not a joke. You know what, damn If I miss the flight, I

miss it. I would wait for this guy. Long story short, Omah Lay walked in and said, “ah boss, you know, I’ve been trying to reach you. I've been

sending you DMs.” So we started talking, you know and I said to him, I have a question for you, who are you? Why are you so talented? Tell me your

story. He told me all of his plans, you know, we chopped it off. Great guy. Then we left. Thankfully I didn’t miss my flight, it was delayed. When I

got to the USA, I was on tour but we kept sending ideas. Then the lockdown happened. That was how we made a song, “Tonight”. That was one of the

first songs he ever released, around when he put out his first tape. After the lockdown, we tried to work on different records. There was a time me,

Fireboy and Omah Lay made a record. For some reason that record never came out. Then Omah Lay and I worked again and made “One Call”. After we made

One Call, something just kept tickling me. I felt someone else needs to join us on this song. I think what tickled me was the fact that the song

with Omah Lay and Fireboy never dropped. That song is a hit! I don't even know how to explain it. We were going to get back to the studio to finish

it but it just didn’t happen. After we made One Call, I kept thinking, who would be right to join us on this song? Then I remembered Tyla. I tried

to feature Tyla in 2021 on a song with Lucky Daye but we never put it out. I’ve always seen Tyla as a special pop voice. I had already submitted the

song for release, just the version with Omah Lay. I called my team a week later as said let’s withdraw. Then we finally put Tyla on the song. She

also liked the record, it's easy when an artist is also a fan of the record. Omah Lay had a great reaction to it because they have a good vocal

synergy. If you look at the vocal combinations of Omah and Tyla, their voices fit each other. I'm grateful for the reception on the song. It’s one

of those records that stands on it's own for the sake of music forever.

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