Evergreen Awards is proud to name SPEARHEART as the recipient of the Best Inspirational Music Album in Nigeria of 2025 for his deeply moving EP, AWAKENING. More than an album, AWAKENING is a spiritual journey set to music—one that merges soul, cinematic storytelling, and cultural consciousness into a body of work that resonates with listeners across generations and geographies. Rooted in Nigeria but crafted for the world, it reflects the emotional, ancestral, and artistic evolution of an artist who sees music as both therapy and prophecy.

The Sound of Awakening

Across five unforgettable tracks, AWAKENING weaves together elements of cinematic soul, inspirational pop, Afro-reggae, and spiritual folk. The EP opens with “A Song To End All Wars,” a piano-driven plea for unity that calls for love in a fractured world. “Fighter” follows as a defiant anthem of resilience, blending Afrobeat and reggae to honor the survivor’s spirit. “I Can Read Your Mind” offers solace to silent struggles, channeling the emotive depth of Sade and Lighthouse Family. In “Káre,” Yoruba ceremonial chants and tribal percussion rise in haunting beauty to confront betrayal and ancestral justice. The journey culminates in “What A World It Would Be,” a gospel-inspired, cinematic vision of collective hope—its refrains both triumphant and tender.

Each track functions as a chapter in what SPEARHEART describes as “soul architecture,” an intentional soundscape crafted to guide the listener from mourning to resolve, from silence to voice. It is a rare album that speaks as fluently to personal pain as it does to social healing.

A Global Artist Rooted in Purpose

SPEARHEART, born Walter Kolade Spearheart, is a multidisciplinary Nigerian artist, therapeutic harpist, and founder of The HOLD ON Initiative—a mental wellness platform launched in South Africa in 2017. With a career that spans Lagos, Cape Town, London, and Atlanta, he brings a truly global sensibility to his music while remaining deeply anchored in African cultural tradition. Signed to Iris Music LLC (Atlanta), SPEARHEART has collaborated with Grammy-nominated producers to refine a sound that is both polished and prophetic. His artistry is defined not by genre boundaries, but by emotional depth and spiritual clarity.

Authenticity as a Signature

What makes AWAKENING truly remarkable is the sincerity behind every lyric, every chord. It is music made not for charts, but for transformation. SPEARHEART’s own description of the album speaks to this intent: “AWAKENING is more than music. It is soul architecture. It is memory and prophecy in five movements. From mourning to resolve, from silence to voice, SPEARHEART invites us to feel, to forgive, and to dream again.” In a world saturated with content, AWAKENING stands apart for its emotional authenticity and its call to higher human consciousness.

Momentum and Meaning

Though newly released, AWAKENING is already gaining traction across streaming platforms and social media. Music videos in development for “A Song To End All Wars” and “What A World It Would Be” promise to expand its visual and emotional impact. Early listeners in Nigeria and across the diaspora have responded to the album not just as entertainment, but as a source of comfort, conviction, and healing. The EP’s seamless blending of therapeutic harp, Yoruba folklore, cinematic production, and gospel cadence offers something few projects do: deep emotional connection paired with sonic excellence.

A New Benchmark in Nigerian Inspirational Music

By awarding AWAKENING the Best Inspirational Music Album in Nigeria of 2025, Evergreen Awards recognizes not only the technical brilliance of the project, but its emotional, cultural, and spiritual value. SPEARHEART has created something enduring—a body of work that uplifts as it challenges, that comforts even as it calls for growth. In doing so, he has set a new standard for what inspirational music from Nigeria can be: globally relevant, locally rooted, and universally healing.

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