Singer is trying to come back with her promised "1960" album

Eva Alordiah is weird. That’s the English word designated to people who are ‘unusual’. People who get along in life a little differently from the norm or how ‘it is meant to be lived regularly’. This she puts out unashamedly, and continues to extend her creativity.

Look at her profile. It reads like a long list of creative ideas interwoven into each other, each feeding on the next, and vice versa, creating a seamless interplay of products that are all art. That’s why her CV read: Rapper, songwriter, writer, model, make-up artiste, fashion designer, fitness enthusiast, and finally, the word to wrap it all up, and give it a business (for profit) context is ‘Entrepreneur’.

Everyone has nothing but love for Eva. She’s small and extremely cute, gently strides the fine line between flat right tomboyism and raw sex appeal. She’s also a role model, with her involvement in modelling, her outrageously impressive makeup game, the skill acquisition classes to empower younger folks (for a good fee), the deep, insightful, and layered blog posts, and most recently, her engagement.

Eva has teased rap music since the inception of her career, promising to be the big deal with plenty of releases and features, but ultimately failing to harness that into a proper body of work. In 2011, she put together the ‘GIGO EP’. That project was supported by the singles "I Done Did It", "Down Low", "Garbage Out (Your Fada)" and "High". The EP's production was handled by Sossick, Tintin and Gray Jon'z. "I Done Did it" was released as the EP's lead single; it was produced by Sossick.

Great music. But the business of it was not covered in glory. It was reported in May 2012 that Eva signed a record deal with Da Trybe 2.0, a record label owned by record producer and recording artist eLDee. In November 2012, that same media, which celebrated the alliance, reported that Eva was dropped from Trybe Records. According to the press release signed by the management of the recording outfit, ‘Eva's ideas and foresight didn't align with the label's plans’. She later moved on to 3UD management outfit, but that failed too. Eva always seemed to operate at a level that wasn’t aligning with people.

But personally, away from music she has flourished, with her company, MakeUpByOrsela, growing strategically. Also, she had taken to blogging, channeling that creative spirit into stories that touch, educate and inspire. Once she shared a tale about her sexual molestation at the hands of a family relative. But where she found writing home, was in sensuality. Embracing her creativity, a book ‘11’ was birthed. Its front cover summed it all as ‘a captivating collection of short, short semi-erotic stories’.

Eva’s talent in music making is worthy of the greatest heights. She possesses lyrical skills that entertain in a deeply sensual, yet thoughtful manner, leaving listeners contented, yet longing for more. Since her return to music after the ‘G.I.GO EP’, she has made great strides with her second body of work, ‘Eva’(THE EP), and singles ‘Lights out’, ‘Deaf’, ‘Deaf and dumb’, ‘War coming’, and the recent ‘Kanayo’. Everyone was pumped up and ready for the release of the album, which she christened .

“1960” album was first announced to be released over two years ago. The rapper put out word in late 2014, that the LP was at completion, and would hit the streets on January 14, 2015. Up next came claims that the project would be dropped on a symbolical date. October 1, 2015, Nigeria’s hallowed Independence Day was chosen, and everyone embraced hope that Eva, with her flair for the artistic, was set to marry an album named after our year of independence, to its true month of occurrence. On Wednesday, September 30, 2016 Eva still assured fans the album will drop in an Instagram post captioned ‘1Day to go’, but alas October 1 came and there was no album.

Everyone waited, asked, disturbed, agitated, and moved on. Nothing to see here. The album isn’t coming.

This year, like the times before, Eva is back and huffing. Her management has been reshuffled, with a new team installed to make the project work. The rapper is on a return mission to drop the album, and from her activity on social media, it is scheduled to drop on August 13, 2016. She is currently on her media rounds, speaking to the entire country about her work, and how she intends to drop it. All of these, to generate interest for her project.

But is it too late for Eva’s return? Has she dallied and disappointed too many times to be considered again? Only time will tell.