Lagos, Nigeria – ConnectAfrobeats, the web networking platform has relaunched with Model 2.0—introducing highly effective new options that make it simpler for artists, producers, distributors, publishers, and different skills to attach, collaborate, and land gigs.
The cultural hub which was first launched in 2023, is created to attach artists with producers, songwriters, managers, indie promoters with distributors, publishers with artistic journalists, amongst others for collaboration, networking, touring, and different artistic deliberations.
In response to the founder, Abdullah Abubakre, a Canada primarily based Nigerian entrepreneur and music fanatic, ConnectAfrobeats was established to be the melting pot of expertise and alternative, the place creatives and non-creative gamers in Afrobeats can join, discover skills, kind a staff, and total really feel a way of neighborhood with a shared objective.
“I began this platform out of frustration with the gatekeeping, middlemen politics, and networking-heavy sport in Afrobeats at the moment,” Abubakre recalled. “ Prior to now few months alone, I’ve wanted a songwriter, guitarist, bassist, and video vixen—and discovering the best individuals meant counting on private connections. These middlemen will take a reduce, drive up the charges, and over complicate the method—killing my creativity typically.”
“After we launched in 2023, ConnectAfrobeats has been a game-changer for me, and plenty of different creatives giving us the instruments to construct and join whereas genuinely serving to one another succeed. With the relaunch of the platform, I’m excited to see much more creatives and professionals faucet into these alternatives and create long-term success for themselves – the place they will pitch their expertise and discover gigs—with out the middlemen.
“Unbiased artists, songwriters, producers, publishers, distributors, video administrators, video vixens, leisure attorneys, and extra can join immediately with one another,” he added.
Ranging from twenty eighth of March, 2025, new customers can now join, present customers can log in again and discover the platform, particularly the MarketSquare the place they will publish gigs and pitch their skills, invite mates to their private house, for collaborations.
ConnectAfrobeats platform had collaborated with the “Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Music Enterprise Africa (MBA), Pop of Tradition on Expertise Palette, amongst others previously.
Via its robust partnerships and collaborations with the music trade, ConnectAfrobeats is dedicated to benefitting creatives and professionals by cultivating an surroundings that fosters creativity, connection and collaboration.
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