Omah Lay — Couleur Café, Bruxelles, 2025

Live concert footage of Omah Lay headlining the Couleur Café festival, in Brussels’s Osseghem Park, in 2025. A Nigerian singer and songwriter, Omah Lay has emerged as one of the defining voices of the new afro wave, with a style he himself describes as “afro-depression”: melancholic afrobeats, R&B textures and introspective melodies carried by a hushed voice. This full concert capture documents a festival performance before a large European audience, the artist unfolding his best-known songs in an atmosphere at once danceable and emotional. Couleur Café, a Brussels festival known for its openness to world music and urban cultures, is the ideal setting for this kind of show. The video conveys the energy of the live set: crowd interaction, afro groove and the more intimate moments that define Omah Lay’s world. For fans of world music and afrobeats, this 2025 live concert is a landmark: a leading artist of the contemporary African scene, a major festival and a complete capture of a headline set filmed in the open air.