Sena Dagadu has revealed how Skolom was created.

Observing the 2015 collaboration with the legendary Hiplife group VVIP established her image in Ghana, she said she was convinced of the song's megahit status because of an instance at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA), Accra. 

The singer-songwriter and rapper sat down with Prince Benjamin (PB) on the Class Morning Show, Friday, March 1, 2024.

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"It was a funny story actually," she remarked, noting, while "I was over in Hungary," Reggie Rockstone emphasised to her how successful the song had become "a month or so after it was released".

Even though she was glad, Sena said, she did not make much of Rockstone's calls about Skolom.

About "half a year later, I came to Ghana, and at the airport, I gave out my passport at the passport control and the [officer] looked at me and said: 'Sena Dagadu, Skolom!'," she said, adding this vividly confirmed Rockstone's words. 

After the airport incident, "it was like everywhere I went," people identified me and the song, she said, noting how the song "really had an impact".

The Ghanaian-Hungarian contentedly underlined how spontaneous the creation of the song was, describing it as a "lovely" demonstration of "life throwing you a gift" as "the fruit of your labour".

She said the moment she heard the Mo Beats-produced instrumental, with "Zeal singing the little hook that he had – we were at a bar – I could feel it, [the beat] was tempting me".

"I wrote the verse there [and then] – we were sitting there having beers and kebab – I asked the waiter to give me a pen and paper, and I wrote my verse there and then," she explained.

A distant memory, she said the song was recorded that momentous day "or two days later".

Sena stressed she is a "pen and paper girl – I'm old school," preferring writing to typing because "it helps me memorise what I'm writing".

Sena Dagadu's latest offering is Easy, produced and jointly performed by Fonye. The gorgeous Afropop song captures a struggling couple dreaming and assuring one another of eventual success, generally, in all things, but specifically, concerning the relationship.