Addresses Of Music Labels And Musicians That Are Affilated To These Labels

hey guys, can anybody tell me whether there is a database of nigerian artists and their labels somewhere on the internet or better still if you know any musician and what label they are affiliated to and their addresses. Am trying to gather a free compilation of Nigerian musicians alphabetically and their labels so as to provide easy access for future talents and organizations that would need the services of these artists both famous and upcoming. ( More like a yellow page for artists and labels)

The music industry in Nigeria is exploding and we have to appreciate what they are doing and stick it into the faces of the americans and europeans that what they can do, we can go even better once we have the right exposure and materials at our disposal.

P:s Kudos to D'banj for his mtv award. Gradually the world is shifting it's attention to Nigerian music. Next stop the grammys and we have conquered Africa

So please guys let's help our stars out by providing this much needed database. I was discussing with an American music producer online and he told me that, he actually thought 2 face was from south africa and he doesnt believe Nigeria has more than 5 or 6 averagely known artists in the US apart from fela and he erroneously quoted angela kidjo as a nigerian. We browsed for nigerian artists and labels online and only came up with 2 or 3 musicians on wikipedia.

Nobody is going to provide this much needed noise to the world except ourselves so people let's try and help each other out. Much love people and greatly appreciated.   

Artists and labels are also welcome to promote their works and addresses on this thread. You never can tell. The people in Arista records or Def Jam might be looking for a fresh new talent to showcase. There is no harm trying!

Dnt see anytn wrong,he was only being patriotic. Although ure right is a way

y can't a 9jerian wish 4 9jerian music to conquer Africa? don't be silly,  theres nothng wrong with the lawyers comments,  and even tho i admit that freshly ground are very tight,  theres nothn special about blu3 at aLLLLL! Yuong digi is just showcasing his ignorance

@young_digi


Firstly mr. young, you need to change your mannerism in the way you react to posts on this forum and try to be civilized in your counter disagreements. All these insults where totally unwarranted and most especially when it wasn't directed at you or any one else.

You disregarded everything i wrote on this post and picked a single line to have issues with and instead of you asking me to clarify why i chose to use the word "AFRICA" instead of the world, you go about ranting about how disgusted you are about me and other Nigerians.

If you have cared to read my post well, you would have discovered my reason for asking for the database to help Nigerian Musicians and expose them to the world. It is not a clarion call by me to make money or i have any thing to gain, but just for the love of Nigerian music which i have come to appreciate recently and secondly, i am a Nigerian to the core and i take pride in making Nigeria as the centre piece of African Affairs. You speak of Blu3 and freshly grounded as better musicians than Nigerians and not one Nigerian can sing as good as those two

Young man, your either extremely naive about the music industry or what it represents or better still, your using a knee jerk reaction to judge things in your own way.

In case you don't know, there are what they call "Genres" and this means the kind of music you are suited to or adapted to. From hip hop to soul, to r'nb, country music, acoustic, jazz, blue grass, high life and so many more. Now if your talking about blu3 as good r'n'b artists and better than most of the r'n'b artists in Nigeria, are they better than femi kuti and lagbaja who sing high- life Jazz?   Does D'banj sing soul or R'n'b? Does ikechukwu, ruggedman and modenine, sing hard core rap about the issues of brooklyn, compton and the oppression of the blackman in America? don't they lace it with our own home grown language and pidgin to make it look more home grown? How does Faze's kolomental song have anything to do with comparing it with blu3 or freshly grounded?

If your looking for pure soul and r'n'b, for your information, it is totally alien to the african culture and it would take some time before you can compare them with the american r'n'b singers because they grew up with it and it runs in their veins just the way Nigerian musicians can blend afro hip and r'n'b into their own songs because they grew up with it. So if you are disgusted with naija soul or 'r n b' musicians for not singing like freshlygrounded, then am disgusted with blu3 and freshly grounded for not singing like john legend, michael jackson or R-kelly. Shebi your using the ultimate yard stick to judge them abi? The moment they can sing remotely close to usher raymond, then give me a call  

So my friend, you don't have a point and stop trying to mix up genre's of music to humilate Nigerian Musicians and for the record, the nigerians that were in the just concluded West African Idols, showed that they could also sing soul and r'n'b fluently if given the right opportunity and training. So stop berating them. If you even go out of your way and say you don't know one Nigerian that can sing like blu3, i throw the question back, which african can sing like D'banj, faze, daddy showkey, pasuma and rock the house like femi kuti? I have called 5 different musicians that sing 5 different genre of music. LET ME SEE YOU INSULT THEM THAT THEY CAN'T SING AND BRING OUT YOUR AFRICAN BEST THAT CAN TAKE THEM ON GENRE BY GENRE


Because Nigeria's music is witnessing a revolution and we are churning out more super stars artists than the rest of Africa. Secondly, you can't conquer the world until you conquer your environment. Nigerians and some african countries are beginning to pay close attention to Nigerian music now and the first step to world dominance is through your continent. I Purposely did not say the world because, i know and respect the fact that Nigerian music has to contend with stiff opposition from india, south america, europe and more especially America. So it's better being a king in your own house than you being just a passerby on the road.

Thirdly as it relates to why you asked why Nigerian music must stand out from other countries, you should also ask your self this, when Awilo, koffi and loads of French speaking african musicians were ruling the airwaves in Nigeria and other African countries, what were they trying to do? werent they trying to dominate the African music scene? Weren't  Nigerians paying top naira to go and watch their concerts in TBS or national stadium and their c.d's were selling like hot cake? How many Nigerian musicans did we have then to challenge this african dominance by these ivorians or congolese musicians? How many Nigerian artists could boast of winning internationally recognized awards in music apart from these french speaking Africans? When south African musicians were being publicized during the apartheid era such as luky dube, mariam makeba and the rest, who was helping Nigerian musicians publicize them and bring them the recognition they needed? When cable t.v first came to nigeria and we were watching Bop tv from south Africa, all their musical contents were hell bent on promoting south African content alone and despite the fact that more Nigerians watched Bop tv than the average south african, they never for once showed a Nigerian musical act through out their reign until they were scrapped off the airwaves.  Did the french speaking or south African government ever vote money in their budget to promote Nigerian music or did everything possible to colonize the music industry in their favour? Now that Nigerians are taking their chances and making the country proud, we are publicing them and making all the noise we can make about these musicians for attention to shift to Nigerian and you are angry that "why must naija music stand out from other african music".

Am a patriot and i'll remain so for my Nigerian musical brothers and singers because no Angolan, Malawian, senegalese or morrocan is going to enjoy t.y bello's " greenland" as much as me and it's my duty to encourage her and people like her to do better and conquer the industry so as to bring National pride and honour. So if you support blu3, that's your business not mine and for everytime you call a freshly grounded , i'll point to 3 other Nigerian musicians that i can pick from nigezie, soundcity and music Africa to counter your claim.


So my clarion call goes to all patriots of Nigerian music once again before we were unduely distracted by feeble unpatrotic comments, let's all try to create a database for our artists so as to help aggressively promote our artists and make the nation proud because nobody except us Nigerians will do it.

Peace y'all and more blessing

P:S: One more thing!


I guess you were actually refering to yourself

Haaaaaaaa, i have met comedians on this forums but you have to stand out as a class act

At first, i though replying you to put things in clearer perspective about my initial post and would make you see better but i guess i was wrong and common sense is really not that common so if i have to debase myself to come to your level of understanding, i'll willing punish myself to that that just this once.

In case you drunkenly dropped into this thread mistakenly, you should have read the headline of the topic at first and i'll take pains to copy it out for you. It states:  Addresses Of Music Labels And Musicians That Are Affilated To These Labels
 

I went further to buttress my point why it's imperative for Nigerians to have a database of all our artists and labels.

I further gave a shout out to D'banj to acknowledge him being the reciepent of the best music act in africa this year and encouraged other Nigerian artists to step up the game here by leading to a grammy and conquering africa in the process by being the first.

Nothing in my post suggested that if another African act won the grammy before Nigeria it wont be celebrated likewise, but the reason for your unwarranted bloviates about blu3 and freshly ground was totally uncalled for on this topic. In case your a little bit slow in reading topics, this thread is for addresses and databases of Musicians and not about comparisons between whose a better artist or not which i think has been adequately covered in other threads for discuss.

What has blu3 and freshly ground got to do with the aims and objectives of this thread?

What is the reason for comparing blu3 and freshly ground as better singers got to do with this thread? This is a classic case of sitting for your Waec maths exams and answering your questions in latin. I refuse to engage in a debate about which artist is better than the other because it's your opinion and not the opinion of the record labels, radio stations, producers and listeners who prefer a particular artist to another. So once again, it's you who missed the whole point of the thread not me.

Besides how can you open your mouth and generally categorize all nigerian artists as a bunch and say none of them can sing like blu3 and freshly ground? Have you traversed all the church choirs, all the universities and sampled all the up coming and known artists all the way from Abia to Zamfara state for you to make such a baseless and mundane conclusion. Even the freshly ground your so eloquently screaming their names to high heavens would not even say that they are the best act to have come from their country due to their singing. If they havent been discovered by a producer and a financier came along to back them up and provide all the neccessary support for them to be famous, would you have been talking about them today? Do you know how many artists in uganda that can sing better than blu3 that havent been noticed in the spot light? And you have the audacity to critize people like D'banj and the others are not neccessarily good singers when you yourself havent done anything to help lift the music industry except by crying blue murder that freshly ground are better singers. Better still come out from your closet and say your using this avenue to help market freshly ground or blu3 and we know where you stand but if you have nothing concrete to say, kindly leave this thread and allow people make a database of their favourite music acts and labels and go start your own thread about blu3 and co.


Trust me, your too young to understand what i know about the music industry right from when you think of the musical lyrics in your bathroom down to when your winning the award for that song somewhere in thailand. For your info, I am an entertainment lawyer and i have drafted so many recording music contracts for the big Music stars you worship and i practically sleep in music studios doing them. So you have no idea what i know about the music industry and you shouldnt even remotely attempt to engage me in that realm because you would be left in ruins and battered for life trying it.

one more question are you up to 18 yet? because i can't understand how rational adults would go about saying ludicrious things like this " if u feel i am jumpin into conclusions, u can drink piss and die"

What a way to sumarize an argument especially when your wallowing in the pangs of defeat

Bottom line all i asked for, was just this: E.G

Blu3

Young_digi records

13, tanzania way kampala uganda

( Finito) No argument

Finto ( No argument)

Where are the popular ones

Haaaaaaaaaaaaa! Gosh i have heard it all tonight and i can help myself falling off my chair.

As if i knew, it's only a silly hormone filled teenager that can spew this kind of nonsense and still find it difficult to know the difference between logic and semantics. So you just turned 18?? Are you sure your parents have given you the parental consent to be still awake on your computer when it's way past your bed time?

I guess i just have to bring you up to speed to understand what your dealing with here and i'll take your bloviates piece by piece, although i don't expect a teenager like you to fully comprehend but i go try sha , sigh!


How is possible on earth not to read a topic and still pick out something that interests you in that topic??? You de use expo for your exam or how can you explain such shamrock? Firstly, i assumed you saw the topic of the thread and you decided to click it to know what's up with it. How did you just jump 10 lines down to the one that didnt make sense to you without reading the topic??? Bros you sure say you don de graduate so abi na extra year you de look so? If yes, then your jazz man must be a very powerful man o!


What has blu3 got to do with the topic of the post before you began to compare whose better than who in the singing department? or abi you didnt read the topic of the thread too?


let me get you correctly here, you say better singers than anyone "i" have heard from Nigeria, but you don't live in Nigeria? So the presumption is in your favour that you have either heard only 1 person from Nigeria sing to you or 10 million Nigerians sing and you have compared all of them to make sure blu 3 comes out top? So what sort of warped Concoction of the verbal abuse of the english dictum of semantics and syntax is that? And as i replied before, your not in the position to make such ludicrious comments and analysis when you havent done a reasonable and respectable analysis from other musicians " that you ought to have heard from Nigeria" instead of basing your reports and analysis by listening to your radio or attending  $2 dollar concerts.


Sorry, i have scanned through your posts and i can't remotely see anything that looks like a defination of the meaning of singing. Please check your facts before you mislead the public. Secondly when your talking about singing, are you talking about a particular genre R n B? because your lack of the basic knowledge of singing goes beyond just singing R n B. 


Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Actually am actually embarrassed at this moment to say am actually replying you.  Is this the sort of thing that qualifies you to work for ernest and young? Say the truth, you were never invited to work for them and if you were remotely called for an interview, the interviewers saw beyond your banalities and imbecilities and saw a teenager who they couldnt trust in the art of decorum and sensibility. Was this the way you were supposed to converse with potential clients and instead of talking about business strategies, your telling them their opinions are like assholes???. An illiterate wont dare say such a thing in public talkless of a so called 18 year old , i want to do my masters , blu 3 wannabe teenager. Ernest and young ko, Ernest okonkwo and Sons ni No bi your type them de find! Better come back home and apply to join LASTMA in lagos.


How can you face your masters when you havent even got a degree to prove your educated? Who has been giving you all these false career counseling? I think you should forget the masters and learn etiquette and decorum for a year before you even think of upgrading. Until your a graduate, you shouldnt talk to other graduates. Them no be your mate. Go face your project first. Bloody teenager


Is this one of MKO'S proverbs you just plagralized?? Because i no know wetin concern chicken inside this matter again ( talk about whose's deviating from the topic) If i reply this quote now, the argument fit shift to obasanjo de produce more chicken pass yaradua! Make we leave story there! 



you see another teenage reasoning? Did i say i was doing it as a job or for other Naija people to know where their favourite music stars are located and what label they are affiliated to? You this man, your really seriously in need of that degree and i hope you finally get it because at this rate of reasoning, i don de fear for you.

P:s: Your command of English is very bad and you should improve on your semantics. Your  posts are getting more worrisome and unreadable. I could hook you up with some English writing websites online so as to assist fellow nairalanders to understand you.

@ tosinadeda

thank you very much for your kind contributions. It has been very helpful and it would put to rest the argument about who signed with storm records for now. Nice one and keep it up.

 P:s Do you have their link contact address of storm records too?

Nope i dnt,youngdigi can we please stop this