Popular Nigerian singer and songwriter Simi, widely known as Symply Simi, is celebrating her 38th birthday today, April 19, 2026, with a heartfelt to herself.
In a warm social media post, the award-winning artiste expressed deep gratitude for the year gone by, describing it as one filled with significant growth and blessings.
“One thing about me – I’m gonna celebrate my birthday. It’s been a pretty big, long, heavy, blessed year… Still, God don’t play about me. Still, the people I love, love me. Still, I’m a child of God, and He that is in me is greater than he that is in the world,” she wrote.
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Simi, whose full name is Simisola Bolatito Ogunleye (now Kosoko), continues to be one of Nigeria’s most cherished voices in Afrobeats and R&B. Known for her soulful lyrics, powerful vocals, and authentic storytelling, she has built a massive fanbase across Africa and beyond.
The mother of two recently welcomed her second child in March 2026 faced intense backlash from netizens in mid-February 2026, she strongly condemned rape and called for harsh punishments for rapists during discussions around a viral (later proven false) rape allegation by TikToker Mirabel.
Critics resurfaced her old tweets from 2012–2013, when she was 23 and working at her mother’s daycare. The most controversial post was her lighthearted comment about a four-year-old boy having a “crush” on her. Trolls twisted the innocent remarks as “sexualizing a minor,” accusing her of hypocrisy and launching intense backlash.
Simi responded by clarifying that the tweets were taken out of context and deliberately weaponized by rape apologists to discredit her.
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