Possessing invested a lot of her everyday living amongst Germany, France and Ghana (as effectively as Togo, Chad and Cameroon), singer-songwriter Y’akoto (serious name Jennifer Yaa Akoto Kieck) not too long ago made her household in the Ghanaian funds of Accra, which also happens to be her father’s birthplace. The final decision to move there arrived following a specifically painful heartbreak which spurred her decision to relocate, hoping to “re-find out to like herself radically”, in her words.

The outcome of this knowledge finished up getting to be her new EP, OBAA YAA, her initial sizeable project considering the fact that 2017’s Mermaid Blues. The new EP formally dropped today and with it comes the visual for essential extract “Undercover Lover”. Splashed with eye-popping color, references to ’80s Miami and a great number of wardrobe changes, the visuals from director Akwadaa Nyame correctly matches her upbeat, funk-tinged soul number. As she describes in greater depth under, the video clip wasn’t just encouraged by the boundless optimism that hits you at the start off of a new romance, but also by the course of action of reconnecting with her Ghanaian roots.

“Adhering to on from the ‘I Agree” movie and the suggestions and inspiration bordering color,” Y’akoto explains, “I preferred to create a much more vivid coloured atmosphere for my next video clip for ‘Undercover Lover’. I’ve usually been drawn to and indulged in colour from my early a long time and it is really some thing that attracted me to shift back to Ghana. “‘Undercover Lover’ encapsulates the excitement of a new romance and the movie sets the similar playful, teasing and flirtatious tone. Shot across many scenes in a studio in Accra and put jointly from it is really conception in significantly less than one particular week. I worked with Akwadaa Nyame, a young up and coming movie director from Ghana. A person factor is for confident — very little is undercover about this video clip.