E33: Anabel Rose — Bringing Pop to an Afrobeats City
Ghanaian-Filipino alt-pop artist Anabel Rose joins Afro Soul Stories to talk about bringing pop to an Afrobeats city, and the song that told her to quit her 9-to-5.
In Accra in 2022, fresh out of university and working in marketing, Anabel started taking a pop-rock song to open mics where everyone else was performing Afrobeats and hiplife. She thought nobody would want to hear it. Instead, people leaned in. Three years later she's played Reeperbahn and The Great Escape, done a Berlin residency, and had "How I Want It" named one of Apple Music Africa's Best Songs of 2025.
Host Sewor Okudzeto…
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