I am single and ready to mingle –Noella Wiyaala, Ghanaian singer

Ghanaian artiste, Noella Wiyaala, who won the Video of The Year Award at the just concluded All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) held at Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos last Sunday, has disclosed that she is single and ready to mingle.

According to the fast-rising singer, who won the awards for Revelation of The African Continent and Most Promising Artiste on the African Continent at the maiden edition of AFRIMA last year, marriage is indeed on her mind.


“I am looking around; if I see any available bachelor, then I will mingle. I don’t care if you are tall or short or obolobo (fat man). I just need a man that will let me do my own thing, a man that will support me. We can support each other and have babies.”



The music career of the Ghanaian star who likes to pride herself as the ‘young lioness of Africa’ began when she teamed up with the group, Black n’ Peach after which she went solo and released two hit singles entitled, Make Me Dance and Rock My Body. Ever since, Wiyaala has never looked back. However, the musician says it was not rosy at the beginning because of the stark realities of her environment, which almost stifled her dreams. But with passion and determination, she was able to break the barriers.

Hear her: “In my village, we had no electricity and nobody believed in me. We used to watch television for one hour and thirty minutes every day. People would sing when the lights went off. With time I also started singing too and I told people I wanted to be a star. They looked around and said ‘how could someone like you who stays in the bush be a star?’”

However, luck shone on Wiyaala after meeting a Briton who came to work in Ghana. Pointing at the man standing beside her whom she refers to as Mr. John, she continues: “It’s been a journey. I thank God I met my manager, Mr. John. He just heard my voice and that was it. John said to me ‘I think you have a voice and the world should hear it. He didn’t even know me but he believed in me. He came all the way from the United Kingdom to teach and he met me in the classroom. After I sang a song, he was like ‘wow!’ He said he would invest in me because I am talented and he believes I would go far.”