Valtzino’s ‘ASHAKA’: A Song Pulled Straight From a Dream.
There are songs that come from years of grinding, endless studio hours, and deep creative struggle. Then there’s the rare kind that just arrives, fully formed, untouched by the noise of reality.
ASHAKA, the latest single from Afropop and R&B rising artiste Valtzino, falls into the latter category.
It wasn’t written in the usual sense. It wasn’t planned. It came to him like a vision, handed down by the universe in the dead of sleep.
“I woke up one morning, and the entire song was already in my head,” Valtzino recalls. “The melody, the lyrics, everything. It was like a gift, like I had received something that wasn’t mine to create, just mine to share.”
Without hesitation, he rushed to his in-house studio and captured ASHAKA before it could fade.
The process was urgent but effortless, like tracing over a picture that had already been drawn.
He immediately hit up his producer, set up an impromptu session, and together they worked to bottle this piece. There was no second-guessing, no overthinking. Just instinct. Just flow.
This resulted in a track that feels otherworldly and intimate at the same time.
ASHAKA doesn’t just sound like a song, it feels like a transmission, a bridge between reality and whatever space creativity comes from before it lands in an artiste’s hands.
“This was one of those rare moments where everything aligned. The song wasn’t built. It was born,” he says.
Valtzino is no stranger to these moments. With almost two decades in the game, he has been crafting his own lane in Afropop and R&B, with strong blends in his Nigerian roots with global influences. From singing in his secondary school days to owning a catalogue of over 150 recorded songs, his journey has been one of constant growth. Now based in the U.S., he channels all of it, his heritage, his experiences, his musical heroes into every sound.
And if ASHAKA is any proof, sometimes the best songs don’t come from the grind. Sometimes, they come in dreams.
Listen up!