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naija_diva (f)
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i think a music need to be original to make it in the world market like malian,senegalese,and congolese.nowaday nigerians artists are too influenced by r&b and rap with bad english accent lol. exactly. if you hear a conglese, senegalese, or malian music, you'll know its african music but nigerians copy to much from what they think hip hop/r&b is. it took me a while to get past the accent before i stared to like nigerian music. i grew up listening to old traditional nigerian music with my father and sometimes prefer it more to the more recent music. |
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(fake)david
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exactly. if you hear a conglese, senegalese, or malian music, you'll know its african music but nigerians copy to much from what they think hip hop/r&b is. it took me a while to get past the accent before i stared to like nigerian music. i grew up listening to old traditional nigerian music with my father and sometimes prefer it more to the more recent music.
Go and sing your own - u this croaky voiced toad. |
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naija_diva (f)
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don't be mad cuz i'm telling the truth. until they get internationally known outside the nigerian community, then you can speak.
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Ndipe (m)
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Hands down@naijadiva, that's what I am also thinking. Youssou N'dour is one of the famous musicians from Africa. From your comment, which I do agree, my take is that our musicians are perhaps trying too hard to incorporate foreign music into our beat. We are known for doing so. Look at the literary forum and read one of the comments from some guy, who in a bid to reach an international audience is incorporating foreign settings in his novels. I mean for what?
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Ndipe (m)
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@Ndipe,
I was surprised you mentioned Shade Adu without saying anything about the Grammy Award Winner, SEAL. You have also left out Tunde of the Lighthouse Family.
Femi Kuti and Lagbaja are unique Nigerian Brands that are doing very well internationally.
Seal? What remix does he play? Trado Nigerian music or mainstream music? As for Lagbaja, is he popular in the USA? Note, I am not trying to diss any of the musicians. One might say that traditional nigerian music might not be accepted in the mainstream, but look at Youssou who is perhaps the most famous musician from Africa. His beat is derived from his culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youssou_N'Dour |
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chiogo (f)
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@topic, who knows
Although a lot of people here know "African queen", I doubt many of them know it was sung by a Nigerian.
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