Alté
Alté is an alternative music and style movement from Lagos, Nigeria, that mixes Afrobeats with R&B, indie, soul, dancehall and rap in a free, experimental way.
The word is Nigerian slang for 'alternative'. It came into use in the mid-2010s for a group of young artists who made hazy, low-key songs, released them online and paired them with unusual fashion and home-made videos. Alté is defined more by attitude than by one beat: it rejects the formulas of mainstream Afrobeats and values individual expression.
Artists it is known for: Cruel Santino, Odunsi (The Engine), Lady Donli.
- Family
- African
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Lagos, mid-2010s
- Also called
- alte
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,800 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have alté among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Alté artists
Tems
Odeal
Blaqbonez
Victony
BNXN
Mavo
ODUMODUBLVCK
Zaylevelten
Amaarae
Adekunle GoldThe alté artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
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