Celebrating Goldie’s Creativity! A Look Back at her Videos and Fearless Style

It was an ambiance of sobriety this morning as tragic news of the death of vivacious and daring Nigerian Singer, Goldie Harvey, hit the fan. The star unfortunately died after complaining of a brief headache after her return from the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday 14th February 2013. The Nigerian Music scene has truly lost an amazing singer who stood out from the rest and made herself a force to be reckoned with.


Instead of focusing on the fact that we have lost such an amazing icon in the Nigerian Entertainment Industry, we have decided to celebrate the fact that we had her in the first place. Goldie was a daring and fiesty style icon who was never timid in her style and always stood out on red carpets and award shows. Her performance in the Big Brother house, where she won the hearts of so many people shot her to international heights, from which we now have great collaborations from her and acts such as AY from Tanzania and NAVIO from Uganda.
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The style that we have come to know Goldie for started taking shape in 2008 when she had a photo shoot with renowned photographer, Kelechi Amadi Obi for a limited edition CD sleeve.

Goldie in a red Corset and gloves to match in a photo shoot in 2008

Goldie in 2008
The photo shoot is said to have marked the true transformation of Susan Oluwabimpe Harvey to ‘Goldie’ Harvey. Just like her favourite musician who also has controversial style, Madonna, Goldie started gaining recognition not just for her music, but for her controversial style as well. After the release of her hit 2007 track ‘Komole’, Goldie’s style blew out and  later on, her video ‘You Know It’ featuring ElDee won The Best Video at the Sound City Awards in 2010 and also nabbed the NMVA Best Use of Costume award that same year.
Watch ‘Komole’ Here:


Goldie looking fierce in 2009

Goldie at the Guinness 250 launch in 2009

Goldie at the Airtel Africa Music Awards in 2010

Goldie at the 2010 edition of NMVA
In 2011 we got a dose of the futuristic side from the songstress showing us her more creative side. Her ‘wacky‘ video ‘Don’t Touch My Body (DTMB)’ directed by Clarence Peters grabbed yet another NMVA Award for Best Afro Pop video in 2011. The video was made with a ‘Cirque de Soleil‘ theme with Goldie in a top hat and a penguin Jacket, a straight jacket, a Pharaoh costume, spider web make up, neon clothing and a lot of feathers.
Watch ‘Don’t Touch My Body’ Here:

“Gold” Album Cover Photo shoot:

Goldie’s ‘Gold Reloaded’ album:

Goldie had a unique style that can only be described in one word “out of this world”. Just so we can have a piece of her every month, the pop sensation released a zodiac calendar april last year which shows her in a different sign every month. This is what she said about her calendar: “Since I believe in the stars, the movement of the planets and how it affects our environment, moods and eventually our personalities, I decided to create a Zodiac calendar because I want to share my perception of the zodiac signs and how it affects our personality traits with my fans…” 
Here are the pictures from the calendar from Virgo to Aquarius.

She also showed more of her creativity in the making of her “Say My Name” video with Dj Sose. The video is about allabotu Goldie and her ‘man’ played by Dj Sose.

Watch her ‘Say My Name’ Video Here:

This year Goldie attended the 2013 Grammy Awards with her record label Kennis Music, after which we unfortunately lost her. She was working on her ‘African Invasion’ album with hits like ‘Skibobo’ featuring AY (Tanzania), ‘Miliki’ ft. NAVIO (Uganda) and ‘Give It To Me’ featuring J Martins.

Listen to ‘Give It To Me’ Feat. J Martins Here: