31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Tolü Makay: ‘It may take 10, 20 years but I'll sing a James Bond theme'
The Nigerian-Irish singer on embracing her uniqueness and the viral performance she saw as a sign to keep following her dreams after quitting her job at Google
You've got to dream big, says Tolü Makay. The Nigerian-Irish singer has long held 'sing a Bond theme song' as one of her greatest ambitions – and after a recent performance with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, it seems just that little bit more achievable.
'It's been on my vision board for a long time,' the soul-pop singer says, acknowledging how a number of listeners insisted that she should join the pantheon of Bond singers after hearing her stunning rendition of the Bacharach/David classic Walk On By. 'The fact that people are seeing it now too, I'm like, 'OK! Thank you!'. Now, obviously, there are steps to that: you have to be one of the best or biggest stars of the time,' she adds, undaunted. 'So I'm like, 'OK, we need to figure out how this will happen. Maybe it'll be another 10, 20 years – but it's gonna happen at some point.''
