Fave heats up with ‘Cold Outside’

Award-winning Nigerian singer Fave gets the dancefloor busy with her latest single Cold Outside, which was produced by Dre Skull.

"Dre Skull and I were in the studio earlier this year. I was recording songs and just trying to get ready for my album and Cold Outside was among the first songs that we created when we found ourselves in the studio alone without other artistes there. And it was just a bang on arrival once I hit the beat. I just knew that what we would create would be fire because I love to lean into that side of me that appreciates dancehall music and Dre Skull's call is very dancehall," Fave explained.

"I think when you hear that type of beat, you immediately think of the club and getting crazy in the club. I just remember saying ' Is it cold outside, is it cold outside because here, the whole club is hot hot hot' and we went from there. It just gave the club energy and I leaned into that," she added.

Fave, who collaborated with Masicka on the track Fight For Us (featured on Masicka's Generation of Kings album), was nominated in the 2022 All African Music Awards in three categories. Fave said that working with the Billboard-charting and Grammy-nominated Dre Skull is awesome.

"I love that we are able to pick each other's brains at any time in the session. He's very open to trying new things and I'm very open to trying new things. Sometimes when I am singing, Dre shares his opinion and makes a suggestion of, maybe take this word out or how would it sound if you do it like this? He has such a good ear for music," she said.

Whenever their respective ideas clash, it leaves her with a pleasant dilemma, as she tries to pick the better option.

"But I love working with a producer who is about that life of making music, you know, the whole process of music, the whole composition and Dre's in it," said Fave.

Fave has released two EPs, 2022's Riddim 5 and 2024's Dutty Love.