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Waje and Shoday’s “My Sunshine Song” For Funke Akindele’s The Four soundtrack Is Getting Soft Love

The song wey everybody dey talk If you never hear "My Sunshine", you go hear am soon. Waje and Shoday just drop am and e be that kind of song wey go touch your heart small. Na original soundtrack for Funke Akindele's new…

The song wey everybody dey talk

If you never hear "My Sunshine", you go hear am soon. Waje and Shoday just drop am and e be that kind of song wey go touch your heart small.

Na original soundtrack for Funke Akindele's new film The Four: No One Fights Alone, wey go enter cinema December 11, 2026. The song no be love between boyfriend and girlfriend. Na mother and son love. Pure, soft, real.

As heard in https://lifestyle.thecable.ng/listen-waje-shoday-combine-for-soundtrack-of-funke-akindeles-the-four/, they sing am like prayer:

  • "You are my sunshine / Whenever I feel so down / I love you daily"
  • "E ba mi ki wura mi o / Abiamo ma da mi" – that Yoruba part wey mean "help me greet my gold, mother of a child no abandon me"

Waje carry am with that her big soulful voice, Shoday add that Afrobeats soft touch wey we know from "Caution". Together e sweet.

The link to The Four

This no be just random collab. For the film, Waje na Esosa, Shoday na her pikin Obaloluwa. Their story na the main heart of The Four. The question film dey ask na, how far mother go go for her child?

According to https://www.bellanaija.com/2026/10/waje-shoday-my-sunshine-the-four/, the film dey set between Odu community and Lagos. E follow Esosa and three other strong women as they fight to protect young man future. Motherhood, friendship, faith – that na the core. So when you hear "My Sunshine", na their journey you dey hear for music.

Funke herself post for Instagram say, "They play mother and son in the film and brought that same love into the music," as quoted by https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/movies/waje-and-shoday-team-up-on-the-four-soundtrack-my-sunshine. And yes, video don dey for FAAN TV on YouTube.

Why fans dey love the collab

Why e dey work? Simple.

  • E warm: No too much shakara. E be song you fit play for mama, play for pikin.
  • E real: Waje and Shoday no just sing, dem act am. Shoday na first time dey act, Waje done act before, so emotion enter well.
  • Funke magic: People trust Funke Akindele. After Omo Ghetto and A Tribe Called Judah, anything she touch, people go listen.

If you love soft love, this one na your own.

Sources

  1. www.pulse.ng/entertainment/movies/waje-and-shoday-team-up-on-the-four-soundtrack-my-sunshine.
  2. www.bellanaija.com/2026/10/waje-shoday-my-sunshine-the-four/,

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