Some of your fans got to know about you during your NYSC programme. You always went with a guitar anywhere. Was that when the music started officially for you? Well, I would say that was my first official recognition of the same thing I’d been doing way before.
It was more like a confirmation that I could do this. I remember winning every music competition organized by different big brands in camp, including one of the biggest telecommunications giants in Africa, which gave me a mini-celebrity status in Camp. I remember being shocked and confused when asked for an autograph for the first time in my life.
Your group, “The Pulse Band”, won the Star Quest in 2009. Aside from the DJ Switch, who became a popular DJ and also trended worldwide during the Endsars protests in October 2020, what happened to the rest of the band? They are doing very well; some of them are the musical brains behind most musical talent shows you see on TV in Nigeria today while the other instrumentalists are breaking grounds on the biggest stages outside the shores of Nigeria. For years now, you have been blessing social media timelines with songs that speak people’s minds or tell their reality.
How do you just know the topics and words to use that instantly connect with the listeners? Social media has become a major tool for self-expression, and for me, making songs that speak people’s minds or tell their reality is me speaking my mind and expressing my reality because at the end of the day, we.
