DaVido shares 'FIA' remix with Stefflon Don - listen

Plus: Read The Independent's Q&A with the Afrobeats star about his sold-out Brixton show, touring, and potential future collaborations

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Nigerian Afrobeats star DaVido has shared a remix of his track "FIA" with Stefflon Don.

It's a perfect collaboration - the pair fuse their respective African and Caribbean sounds together for a sweet slow burn that was made for the club.

Check out the track below and read our chat with DaVido about his career so far:

Q&A with DaVido

You just played a sold-out show at Brixton Academy to 3,000 people, what was that like?

It’s been a long time coming, in the past I’ve done a thousand, 2,000 venues, and the funny thing is I didn’t even sell out those, so this was crazy. Every day I see new people of different races listening to my music, so I feel like this is my year.

Your music is being heard more and more in the UK and around the world, what's the key to that success?

Grind work. I put in the work, I toured so much last year and I think that’s rubbing off now, just making sure you’re being heard, being everywhere… not everyone in the crowd knows your music when you go somewhere new.

​You brought out Wizkid at the Brixton show so we're assuming that beef is over - how did it start?

We’re both the biggest back home so… it was unnecessary competition.

Do you think you might end up working together?

We’ll patch up the relationship first before we work together but… it might happen!

You've already done a bunch of collaborations but you seem quite picky about who you work with

Collaborations are very important. Bringing two worlds to one. I work with a lot of people, Popcaan, Young Thug, Rae Sremmerd, Tinashe… I’ve been focusing on working with myself but I’ll probably do some more collaborations this year.

What’s the one thing you want to achieve this year?

Get the album done!


 Artwork for the FIA remix by DaVido and Stefflon Don

FIA, the new remix from DaVido and Stefflon Don, is out now