Houston's Afrobeat scene booms along with the city's growing Nigerian population
Otu is one of more than 40,000 Nigerian people who have moved to the Houston area in recent years, U.S. Census data shows, tripling the area's Nigerian population. Between 2010 and 2021, the area's Nigerian population grew from over 21,000 people to nearly 64,000 people, and with that growth has come an explosion in the community's music scene.
Awoyode recalls in 2010 having to convince his boss at Crystal Lounge, which has since also closed, that hosting an Afrobeat night could be a profitable proposition. He'd just traveled home to London, where he grew up, and saw how the city's sizable Nigerian population supported a thriving local music scene. He saw no reason that couldn't be replicated here in Houston.
Mr. X Bar and Lounge, on Richmond, hosts the AfroXperience every Friday and O2 Lounge, a few miles west on Fondren, hosts SK Saturdays every weekend. The Domain Restaurant and Lounge on Westheimer also regularly hosts Afrobeat nights as does Ebony Foods and Music on Westheimer and Afrobeat has embedded itself into the global pop landscape so much that other DJs in clubs across Houston will incorporate the music into their sets.
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