Producer and Musician, K-Solo, went under the radar after his bitter
split with his wife in 2012.The producer credited with producing all the
songs on Timaya's first smash album says he
traveled out of the country to lay low.He told Punch
I had so much bad press that I needed to go away to somewhere else where
I could reorganise my life,“During that period, I took a close look at
the Nigerian music industry. I found that many artistes were not doing
anything new, in terms of content. Instead of working on new idioms, they were
busy recycling old songs – mostly highlife songs that were very popular
between the 1960s and 1980s – and repacking them as new hits....
“Also, I have noticed that many so-called musicians are not paying
attention to songs. Nowadays, everybody seems to be concentrating on
beats and getting their fans to dance, instead of composing good songs.
The result is that contemporary Nigerian music has lost a great deal of content. And this is not good for us.”
Nigeria is blessed with talented and versatile artistes. They include
people like Sunny Neji, Paul Dairo, Asa, Sound Sultan and Timaya. The
problem is that the new generation
of musicians are missing it. Most of them are not talented. The reason
why they are into music is because they want to be seen as ‘artistes’.
That is why they are losing content daily.“They think it is all about
money. So they have come with a lot of money and expect it to make them
popular overnight,
“If you mention the five most successful and richest musicians in
Nigeria, I think that I am one of them. I actually bought a house and
some state-of-the-art cars with my earnings from music. I have no other
means of livelihood,
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