80% of the time, it aint their fault but the organizers,  mostly because of fear of a bad sound check!!! initially miming was inmposed by organizers on artistes because they didn't wanna risk poor live vocal rendition owing to poor sound system that'l consequently expose their flaws as bad event's organizers, over time it has become a norm that-if you ask me- is wrecking the industry.

these artistes need to clean up their act cos people are beginnig to grumble, the streets are  really getting aggressive with artistes these days, haven't you noticed? in marketing, it's called post purchase dishonance,  in plain man's english: why da hell will i pay 5k to watch that bruva or sista mime for 5 mins. then they walk away with 1m? somebody slap me!!!!

Nice thread, nice posts, would be back to post, watching Nig v. CIV match now

They mime cos they are so lazy to practise and don't know it works better than miming.Actually, they think it's just about miming. I mean live concerts.They need orientation. That's my only reason for liking dbanj and psquare. they sing more and mime less.

thegame, i agree with you that nigerian artistes are lazy, but that is when it comes to promoting their works (interviews,photo sessions etc), but if na rehearsals, forget it! they spend days putiing their acts together before coming on stage. i know a couple of them: obiwon, ruggedman,modenine , they don't joke with rehearsals. it's the organizers that oftentimes insist that they perform with cd's.

some of them are lazybut most of them are they're desperate! a friend of mine's an artiste manager. many time's he's rejected shows because of the 'performing with cd' thingy only for the artiste to go behind his back to accept their offer-even for a lesser fee! these are popular acts you know! i've lost my respect for many of them.

very few of them like sunny neji, p-square, d'banj, soul e , will insist on live performances or nothing. some of them go further to insist on a live band or nothing!!they're ready to reject any show that does not meet their demands. how many artistes do you know that'l refuse 350k to 2m for 5mins of miming or less?

they've sold their intergrity because an organizer doesn't want to spend extra money to provide quality mic's,mixers and sound engineer/technical crew? "the dj's mic(s) will do abeg? make them mime" lol, that's the mentality of these organizers!

i'm glad you brought the subject up. i'm even writing an article on it for a newspaper called National daily this weekend. it's time we put an end to the garbage. i hope more people comment on this issue. thumbs up tundewood!

i used to ask myself this question and i hope the 2face thing would make them realise that if they really want to be called international standard artist they got to Bleep the international way,
my reasons are below
1. lazyness, they are very lazy

2. no voice or talent.thing of omotola, raski, geneviv and tony tetuilla perfoming live, i once heard tony singing "my kind of woman" life and i dont dont need to tell yall how it was. most of our artist are at the mercy of OJB jareal including lexy doo who cant sing a good line to save the world.

3.The fans. yes we the fans dont complain alot thats why they keep on doing it over again like thats how it should be done, do u think toface would ever mime in tha usa again? but go to his next performance anywhere in naija and he would surely mime all the way

That's most likely because you have never seen this Nigerian Artist perform:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO50Hs-7XBM


No mimes here!!!

This miming or lip synching shit is giving nigerian artistes a bad name. that was how tuface went to united states to perform only to be lip synching. they stoned bros (tuface) with the usuals e.g popcorn, drinks etc. Nigerian artistes have to stop this bullshit.

@rrapstarr
shut tha Bleep up cos that dumb slut monkey was mimeing that shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62SQFdXv3dI

B4 u guys talk too much. It all depends on the organiser. some provide all the equipment necessary for live performances some don't

i totally totally agree with slug. . .^{1st parargraph}

most of the time if not all there are no facilities even we some int. stars come they lip synch.

Tiawn,
Tabon, Gbosa!

AK2:

This miming or lip synching shit is giving nigerian artistes a bad name. that was how tuface went to united states to perform only to be lip synching. they stoned bros (tuface) with the usuals e.g popcorn, drinks etc. Nigerian artistes have to stop this bullshit.

for real?!!!lol, men, i gotta get the full gist, pls holla at me with details , that's if it aint that Tribune story, not really feeling their angle, anybody with an eye witness report? anyone?holla at moskilz2001@yahoo.com(my email addy)thanks

lemme ge back to da issue at hand- wrote my article already!haha, i'll post y'all a link oncer it's published!
nuff said, these so called artistes need to up their game up, stand up to these organizers, fo real.

If not for Miming Artistes like Tony Tetuila, Dbanj, Psquare would be aweful on stage, except for their gra gra