Producer and Musician, K-Solo, went under the radar after his bitter split with his wife in 2012.
In a recent chat with Punch, the producer credited with producing all
the songs on Timaya’s first smash album said he traveled out of the
country to lay low.
“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”, he
said
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