How do you label a woman who has composed a number of timeless folk songs based on the realities of the African daily life and struggles? The mixed grill of a husky voice that is clear and cool, yet slippery and swirling around you.
Likewise, imagine touching thick pile, silk velvet. The response is warm, breathy, deep, soft, so cushy and absolutely luxurious. When you hear Yinka’s voice in the art of delivering different genres, she puts in varying characters thus creating various pictorial and emotive scenarios through her voice, yet when we listen, the response is the same. You melt in the luxury of Elfreda Yinka Davies’ sound.
The tones of the singer and songwriter, is no doubt a delight to the pop, classical audiences with a taste for rich African music laced with jazz improvisations, in addition, a confusion to music critics.
