After bagging her first music award at the 2016 edition
of eCelebrity Awards, Nigerian born singer, Chinwendu Florence Izuchukwu
popularly known as Floxy has revealed that she owes it all to the inspirations
from iconic singer, Beyoncé Knowles.
Having bagged two
nominations at the 2016 edition of eCelebrity Awards, she went ahead to win one
with her song, ‘Sweet Dreams’, which happened to be an acoustic cover of the
same title by Beyoncé. Floxy was nominated individually in the Vocal Artiste of
the Year category with ‘Sweet Dreams’ and in the Best Collaboration of the Year
Category, alongside rapper Romy who featured her on the track ‘Never Walk
Away’.
Floxy who was absent at the Award Ceremony because of an
ongoing examination in her school, had her manager Chinedu Hardy Nwadike
receive the award on her behalf. However, her absence did not stop her from
making a comment on the social media when she heard she had won in that
category as she wrote; “And it finally came. Vocal Artiste of the Year at eCeleb
Awards tonight. Thanks you Jesus for the voice. Thank
you everyone who voted for me. I am grateful for this.”
In a chat after, she revealed
that United States of America based singer, Beyoncé has been a huge role model
to her, adding that she had always wanted sing and dance batter than the iconic
singer.
“She (Beyoncé) will always be
an icon like Michael Jackson and if I hadn’t loved the song so much, I wouldn’t
have done a cover of it. I didn’t do it
because I wanted to be another Beyoncé, I did it because I always feel like
there is another angle to everything and I’m never afraid of that new angle.
One thing for sure, if she hadn’t done her version, who knows, maybe I wouldn’t
have won this award, so I owe this to her inspirations”, she said.
She then joined in the
official statement issued out by her management to thank the organizers of the
awards, especially the CEO of the brand, Stanley Akalonu aka Esure, everyone
who voted for her and music producer, Somik who produced the song.
“I give it to Somik, he has
always been awesome in production, but I love this one so much. The award is
dusted and we have to face the next thing which will be a single or video” she
concluded.
Floxy’s last single was
released in mid-2015 and she would be hoping to bounce back from the sad events
of losing both parents within a space of two months, to show her fans that she
can only get better in music.
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