Future Of Rock Music In Nigeria

I think the point is to worry less about be "authenticaly Nigerian" and worry more about just being a good solid rock act.

The world of music is bigger than Nigeria so why worry about getting signed in Nigeria. Here I sit halfway across the world in Seattle. I have produced more than one artist via the internet sending music back and forth. With rock why limit yourself? Example, Lacuna Coil is Italian, yet they are recording their album in Los Angeles. Likewise Jimi Hendrix was American and recorded in London. Its not about trying to reinvent everything that exists elsewhere in Nigeria but making use of what exists already in Nigeria and elsewhere to produce the best single or album and putting on a good show.

Most acts now make way more money on touring and merchandise than on album sales. You just need one or two chart hits.

If Gamine is good and if she works with the right producer there are labels in Europe and the US that would sign her act in a heartbeat and she will grace the pages of Kerrang and all the rock magazines because she is different.Kind of like how they all were into Japanese heavy metal when it first came out. Music industry is always looking for the new angle. Just being from Nigeria doing hard rock is a new angle.


And big in the US and Europe = Big in Nigeria especially since she would be Nigerian.

People are always going to compare you to someone else. That doesn't mean you're not original.

Its just what people do in order to describe an artist.

I've been told I sound like Shania Twain, and the girl from Flyleaf but I don't sound like either really nor do I try to. If you get told you sound like more than one person then you're original for if you were not then you'd keep being compared to the same person.

Also, being original is not something you try to be, you just are. It's Zen. It's not something you should think or worry about. Gamine would be original just by being a platinum selling rock vocalist from Nigeria 

Copying others takes thought. Originality takes intuition.

I've heard a lot of "original" stuff that sounds like crap because people were trying too hard not to sound like someone else.  That's just as bad as copying.

Yes, be yourself, but all artists have influences. Some show theirs in their work more than others.

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On the track, i like it. . .still analyzing tho.

On instruments, i really love having the drums distinct or starting out with them. . .

as much as i like the guitar and synth, working them around the Drum works best for me.

i will try to list examples here, but you should get what i mean.

seems jadestar wanna teamup with gamine,

wish u gals best of luck

hummm, thought 1 of u myt knw, what's d name of that female in Coal Chamber

Hey Gamine, i'm a Nigerian rock artist, i play acoustic guitars and bass,my music is on the side of John mayer, matt nathanson, and those kinda guys, but my biggest influences have ben Chris Okotie and Tracy chapman may be u might wanna check out my music on my facebook artist page, its http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ese-Peters/7385201178  .my email is boyplu@yahoo.com. Rock on.

Do you consider John Mayer and Tracy Chapman rock in Nigeria?

Blues is blue not rock and I have hear Mayer's latest. It's bluesy but not really blues. No one really into blues would call it that here in the US.


Tracy Chapman and John Mayer are considered singer-songwriter indie-pop not rock. That's why I asked. I think there may be a different definition of rock in Nigeria. Saying Tracy Chapman or John Mayer are rock is like saying Celine Dion is rock,

U do have a point, but u should realize that Rock has many sides, imagine coldplay winning best rock album for Viva La Vida at the last grammy awards,imagine, they beat the raconteurs, even Metallica. Coldplay's sound can't really be described as rock, Chris martin even said it when he accepted the award. John Mayer won best solo rock vocal performance for his song gravity.Rock music doesnt have a different definition in Nigeria, people just don't have enough info about rock music cos its not that big here.  Thank you Gaminechic.

uhmmmmm.gamine and rock, dats funny

Hi, I just made this for an online contest. It is so short because it had to be under 3 minutes to comply with the contest rules.

I did everything except play drums,

Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards is all me.

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