Wendy Shay

Wendy Shay is Wendy Asiamah Addo, a Ghanaian singer born in Accra on 20 February 1996, with family roots in Obo, Kwahu. After her father died she moved with her siblings to Stuttgart, Germany, where she went to school, studied music, and trained and worked as a nurse before coming home to sing.

RuffTown Records signed her in early 2018, and her first single, “Uber Driver” (June 2018), made her an overnight name. “Bedroom Commando”, “Astalavista” and “The Boy Is Mine” with Eno Barony followed. Her debut album Shay On You arrived in January 2019.

Her albums since are Shayning Star (2021), Enigma (2022) and Ready (2025), with singles such as “Survivor”, “African Money”, “Too Late” and “Crazy Love”. In 2021 the 3Music Awards named her one of the 30 most influential women in Ghanaian music. She has also been enstooled as a queen mother in Gomoa Afransi in the Central Region.