Emerging from New Orleans’ vibrant jazz scene, Blessing Tangban debuted an introspective, vulnerable and folky sound with 2014’s debut EP Nowhere Girl that opened us up to the world of a lost a 15-year-old Nigerian immigrant in America, starting college, falling in love, getting heartbroken and finding her faith.

Over the course of the last decade, Blessing‘s musical career continues to bloom. Her soulful musical spirit has led her to tours around the world, working with renowned African musicians (Johnny Drille, M.I. Abaga) and having her music synced in multiple films. She now resides in Canada where the country has welcomed her with multiple prestigious shows and Canadian artist collaborations. Blessing also won the Galaxy Music Award for best vocal performance for her song “Tebe Tebe.” She’s currently nominated for five African Nova Scotian Music Awards (ANSMA) at their 26th annual ceremony for Rising Star of the Year, Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Emerging Artist of the Year and Music Video of the Year for her song “Teach Me.”

Blessing‘s latest single, “Prayer,” is a transcendent and hopeful piece written as a prayer to God that she would get through a valley of uncertainty and false promise in her music career and life. The beautiful single is quite literally a written down prayer to God by Blessing which she also hopes restores faith in her listener to continue to be bold and trust in God during times of low light.    

1. Tell us the story of this song, why did you choose to visualize this song specifically?
I figured having visuals will give my listeners a more immersive song listening process. Most people are also visual learners so I didn’t want to deprive them of that; the same reason goes for some of my fans who listen to music exclusively on YouTube. I just wanted to include everyone and make sure they could get access to the song. 

2.What was the inspiration behind this video (visuals, storyline, etc.)?
I wanted to keep it simple and focused on the lyrics of the song. There are so many ways I could have gone with the video but I wanted the lyrics to be the focus of the video. 

3.What was the process of making this video?
It was quite easy, I had a small team and we found a really nice house to capture the essence of our vision. We shot it in less than 4 hours.