{"id":77953,"date":"2024-04-04T12:05:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/04\/04\/tiwa-savage-will-make-her-acting-debut-in-water-garri-which-shes-also-executive-producing\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T16:05:20","slug":"tiwa-savage-will-make-her-acting-debut-in-water-garri-which-shes-also-executive-producing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/04\/04\/tiwa-savage-will-make-her-acting-debut-in-water-garri-which-shes-also-executive-producing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiwa Savage Will Make Her Acting Debut in \u2018Water & Garri,\u2019 Which She\u2019s Also Executive\u00a0Producing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tAfrobeats superstar Tiwa Savage<\/a> is set to make her acting debut in Water & Garri<\/em>, which was announced Thursday (April 4). The new film will premiere on Prime Video on May 10. <\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Meji Alabi, Water & Garri <\/em>tells the story of Aisha (played by Savage), an ambitious fashion designer who has spent the last 10 years in the U.S. and returns to her native country following a family bereavement. \u201cAt home, things have changed \u2014 violence has escalated and tensions have been high. As she reconnects with family, old friends, and her past love, she must learn to live with her scars and confront the guilt she left behind,\u201d a press release accompanying the announcement said. <\/p>\n

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\n\tMike Afolarin (Far From Home<\/em>), Andrew Bunting (Dynamite<\/em>) and Jemima Osunde (New Money)<\/em> will star alongside Savage in the dramatic new movie, which was filmed in Cape Coast, Ghana. Savage, Vannessa Amadi-Ogbonna, Jimi Adesanya and Meji Alabi are all listed as executive producers.\u00a0The Prime Video film will be available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tWater & Garri <\/em>is also the title of Savage\u2019s five-track EP from 2021, which featured collaborations with Nas<\/a> and Rich King (\u201cWork Fada\u201d), Amaarae<\/a> (\u201cTales By Moonlight\u201d), Brandy<\/a> (\u201cSomebody\u2019s Son\u201d) and Tay Iwar (\u201cSpecial Kinda\u201d). Pharrell Williams<\/a> hailed the project as \u201ca classic.\u201d Savage\u2019s last full-length album was 2020\u2019s Celia<\/em>, which reached No. 15 on Billboard<\/em>\u2018s World Albums chart<\/a>. The African Bad Gyal recently linked up with ODUMODUBLVCK on \u201c100 Million,\u201d which was featured on last month\u2019s Billboard<\/em>\u2018s Afrobeats Fresh Picks column<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Afrobeats superstar Tiwa Savage is set to make her acting debut in Water & Garri, which was announced Thursday (April 4). The new film will premiere on Prime Video on May 10. Directed by Meji Alabi, Water & Garri tells the story of Aisha (played by Savage), an ambitious fashion designer who has spent the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}