Juju music legend King Sunny Ade has charged
young artistes to record songs that will last for
decades.

The musician, who clocks 70 this year, also
wants artistes to project the image of Nigeria
and her culture instead of promoting vulgarity
and nudity.

The veteran musician who has stayed relevant
for more than four decades made the charge in
an interview with a popular magazine during the
week.

“I want young artistes of today to know that they
are lucky,” he said. “In those days, no family
wanted or allowed their children to do music.

Today family members introduce their children to
big artistes to put them through. Moreover, we
don’t have many schools of music in Nigeria, yet
we are still progressing.

“What I want them to do is to give a sense of
belonging to the culture of Nigeria and Africa
and sense of belonging to music of black people
where they have their roots.

“Nowadays, we see more of vulgar lyrics. It
happened in those days but it was corrected. All
they need to do is to do what the ears will hear
and eyes will see that in 20 years, they will not
be ashamed or regret anything. Nowadays, you
see artistes go naked, dancers dance naked on
stage and there is nothing one can do since the
younger ones embrace it and fans love it. It’s
not in the African or Nigerian culture.”

Sunny Ade, while reacting to the problems in the
industry, called for close monitoring as there are
no direct answers.

“We all need to sit down and look inward to
identify the problems. We need to check and re-
check what the problems are. The only thing I
can see clearly is piracy and we lack companies
that can take care of the works of musicians. In
Africa today, Nigerian music is leading. Our own
music is really coming up. If you listen to fuji,
juju or any other traditional music, no matter how
foreign, we make use of less English,” says King
Sunny Ade.


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yes the truth

king sunny, *gallants*. You tried. The thing is the income these young artistes realise is bloody too exorbitant to set their brains straight. Only few of them's got the prospect to pursue your intended dream.

NOBLEstag:
king sunny, *gallants*. You tried. The thing is the income these young artistes realise is bloody too exorbitant to set their brains straight. Only few of them's got the prospect to pursue your intended dream.

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