I seriously don't understand why this lip-syncing thing is even an argument, I don't see the point of it. Regardless if the artiste lip-syncs or not, I would enjoy value for my money. I came to see the artist not judge their vocal performance.

However there is one other thing I paid to see - the stage presence. Too many Nigerian artistes do not have stage presence and the reason is because on regular show outings they are accustomed to performing on only one stage. This makes them hardly move about. Seeing Ne-yo make use of all five stages at the MAMAs set a record other african acts couldn't keep up with. I want promoters to build multi stage platforms our artistes can use in honing their skill to international standard.

ijekul:


U made sense until u said praise is better than TIMI plz take ur drugs

Praise is better than Timi,save for the fact that praise is commercializing his brand the nigerian way,he would have been light years above Dakolo.Timi with his ogogoro voice

U guys are all typing like u weren't jiggling to kukere and dorobucci when it came out...

Nigerians with their tiny brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCya1yiFFP4



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe1WYekn1XE

please all these noise makers should listen to JOHNNY DRILLE "wait for me" and love don't lie" if you listen to these songs you will thank me for making your day!!

whenever I see talent and great artist I know.. and anyone I hype makes it... I'm telling you now, this guy is going to go far!!!!!

JOHNNY DRILLE IS THE BEST "quote me anyway "

My goodness!!!! this guy is phenomenal!!

notjustok.com/2015/06/03/johnny-drille-love-dont-lie/

notjustok.com/2015/08/12/johnny-drille-wait-for-me/

If you listen, you share! enough of kpankolo music

Sanchez01:

True that, Tuface, Lagbaja and a few are the only ones we have around as far as live performances are concerned.

Maybe you guys haven't seen Flavour.

Am a Yoruba guy and some of his songs I might not understand but common the guy is the best live performer I've ever seen.

I saw him at the GTB party in lekki last december and the guy wowed me. I fell in love with him instantly(no homo). He was arguably the best performer of the night.

As in Flavour comes to the stage with a live band nothing artificial like DJ, no pre sequenced keyboard sound. Everything is fresh. From the guitar to the drums, the key board. Guy, you should try and see flavours live performance you will have a rethink about some nigerian artists.

BTW Wizkid came on stage after flavour that same night trying to use a live band as well. My world, it was an absolute disaster. Had it been an outside party and not an official bank's party, am sure people would've stoned him (myself included).

One has to consider the cost ,the time ,the energy of doing a life performance
You need to have a band ,pay all of them, rehearse with them endlessly and perform with accuracy

First ask yourself,how artists do life-recording? So how do you expect a life performance for a song that was done by computer from beginning to end? Surely there will be a distortion. Even foreign arts do same.

safarigirl:
Davido's voice is coarse too, but he's nowhere near Timi, so 'that's not all' with Timi's voice. Like I said, Asa's voice is just ok, any pitch I can reach isn't spectacular, Timi is gold.

I can provide you 50 Timis but can't say same for Asa, she is unique. Uniqueness is the beauty of music generally. Timi and Asa shouldn't be mentioned in same sentence pls.

airmark:


So grammy awards, mtv awards, Bet should be scrapped because they are meaningless to you. Yes you have personal opinion and I respect that. So also I do have right to counter yours with my own opinion. If you don't like it you ignore and I have n't abused you. Meanwhile,If you are a good musician you will be honoured with Top awards. Are psquare, Tuface, wizkid etc not winning awards? Timi dakolo is just there, that's all. I hardly heard of series of major hits from him.

Psquare are really average when it comes to award.

Thank you,no nigerian artiste comes close to Flavour inlive performance. bar man give him 5bottles of hero beer.

jomoh:


Maybe you guys haven't seen Flavour.

Am a Yoruba guy and some of his songs I might not understand but common the guy is the best live performer I've ever seen.

I saw him at the GTB party in lekki last december and the guy wowed me. I fell in love with him instantly(no homo). He was arguably the best performer of the night.

As in Flavour comes to the stage with a live band nothing artificial like DJ, no pre sequenced keyboard sound. Everything is fresh. From the guitar to the drums, the key board. Guy, you should try and see flavours live performance you will have a rethink about some nigerian artists.

BTW Wizkid came on stage after flavour that same night trying to use a live band as well. My world, it was an absolute disaster. Had it been an outside party and not an official bank's party, am sure people would've stoned him (myself included).

hensben:
Psquare are really average when it comes to award.

But they have won 17 awards, mtv, kora, channel o, headies etc.

Nate Ruess

Sanchez01:

True that, Tuface, Lagbaja and a few are the only ones we have around as far as live performances are concerned.

Plus Rhymzo. Great pple!

Somebody said Timi is a better singer tha Asa.which year? No Timi song is better than Asa "jailer" or "Dead Again" am a big fan of timi,he grew up in a street not to far from my street in PH way back b4 he blew up. Life performance Asa still beat Timi hands down,even Timi wunt dear open his mouth to say he's better than asa.

2face Live performance his second to none. Flavour is also a very great live perfomer,sound sualtan is great to, Psuare was average in live performance(especially when dy came to carniriv in PH) Timi is cool to.Then jesse jagz is one of the very best live performer have ever seen from nigeria.

jomoh:


Maybe you guys haven't seen Flavour.

Am a Yoruba guy and some of his songs I might not understand but common the guy is the best live performer I've ever seen.

I saw him at the GTB party in lekki last december and the guy wowed me. I fell in love with him instantly(no homo). He was arguably the best performer of the night.

As in Flavour comes to the stage with a live band nothing artificial like DJ, no pre sequenced keyboard sound. Everything is fresh. From the guitar to the drums, the key board. Guy, you should try and see flavours live performance you will have a rethink about some nigerian artists.

BTW Wizkid came on stage after flavour that same night trying to use a live band as well. My world, it was an absolute disaster. Had it been an outside party and not an official bank's party, am sure people would've stoned him (myself included).

I can just imagine

Sanchez01:
I made up my mind ever since two years ago not to punish myself over attending musical shows involving Nigeria artistes, both Gospel and Secular. Reason for this has been best known to me from day one - our artistes are lazy, an eyesore and arrogant on stage.

So I was at the Eko Hotels yesternight for the Glo Laffta Fest. Who doesn't love a comedy show? For me, it was the best moment to ease myself of the many pressures I've been subjected to of late. Honestly, I had forgotten that music was added. I guess I wasn't really expecting a thing from any of the artistes. The code has worked ever since; love their songs over the air (TV and radio), avoid their live performances like a plague.

After laughing to no end, Burna Boy, just like every other Nigerian act came up without a single back up. It was solo, perhaps more money to him. Calling on DJ Jimmy Jatt at intervals, I could remember Burna Boy singing over six songs within 10 minutes. Which successful artistes does this

Within 15 minutes, Burna Boy had almost finished his album. His average time for each was 2 minutes each, worst of all, they were all lip-synced

The presence of DJs at shows meant for artistes have done more harm than good over the years and this is in turn affecting our music beyond the shores of Africa. The cliché has been the same over the years; they come on stage with the intention to "sing along" all in the name of performance.

It doesn't make sense attending events and all you hear on the stage is "DJ! Let's Go!!" and all you see afterwards is the annoying, regular, unrepentant and unprofessional catwalks they exhibit on the stage. Parambulating like it's a fashion show.

For Pete's sake we watch other foreign acts and they don't do all these. I keep a particular video close to my heart, a live video of Jay Z (a rapper) performing "Young Forever" with Beyoncé. One would think we have not started compared to these folks. We claim our music has attained a reasonable standard, yet they all tow the same line, boring walks, calling on DJ's to play the next track just to "sing along" or lip sync in the name of performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmfmdKOLzVI

Although the subsequent comedies from Basketmouth, Bovi, I go dye and others resuscitated the show. Perhaps our artistes would fare better if they don't sing, come to the show, sign autographs and go home because I can't fathom how they justify the word "performance".

Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Beyoncè, 50cents, Ashley Simpson, the great R-Kelly, Jennifer Hudson, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears among others have been caught in the lip-synching SCANDAL at some point in their careers, yet we brandish it in Nigeria like nothing is wrong with it.
www.forbes.com/sites/michelecatalano/2013/01/25/from-michael-jackson-to-beyonce-a-brief-history-of-lip-syncing/

Perhaps this explains why our glorified international acts struggle in the international scene, save for those who take their shows to these folks. Life, as far as music is concerned is beyond cut and paste in the studio. It continues on the stage not with mediocrity but giving your all.

I honestly couldn't wait to leave the venue after seeing Korede Bello, Dija, and Reekado Banks trying to find their way to the backstage to prepare at about 10:30pm. The scenario is all too familiar; better to have me listen to your songs in my house than see you jumping around while you sing your 2 mins songs with the cliché "DJ! Let's go!!"

PS: For those who don't know, lip-synching is considered offensive and highly scandalous if roped around an artiste in saner climes.

Cc
Lalasticlala

In OLAMIDE's voice : "Everybody Na King 4 him Lane".
There're loads of things to be considered when critically analysing ur own perception abt Naija musicians and their stage performances. The organizers of mostly all the shows in Nigeria have this habit of managing time therefore, reducing cost of renting the venue and i think other miscellanous which would hv incurred more.
Secondly, the artist is cut up in the middle whereby he's been contracted to perform for an agreed amount and for a certain period of time which are sometimes limited. Artists like tuface and the likes are exceptionally selective with terms and conditions that would fetch them more time to do their "Live Band" stuffs! But i get ur perception bruv! No disrespect!!! NaIJA artist really got their thing which the Majority of Nigerians enjoy.

jomoh:


Maybe you guys haven't seen Flavour.

Am a Yoruba guy and some of his songs I might not understand but common the guy is the best live performer I've ever seen.

I saw him at the GTB party in lekki last december and the guy wowed me. I fell in love with him instantly(no homo). He was arguably the best performer of the night.

As in Flavour comes to the stage with a live band nothing artificial like DJ, no pre sequenced keyboard sound. Everything is fresh. From the guitar to the drums, the key board. Guy, you should try and see flavours live performance you will have a rethink about some nigerian artists.

BTW Wizkid came on stage after flavour that same night trying to use a live band as well. My world, it was an absolute disaster. Had it been an outside party and not an official bank's party, am sure people would've stoned him (myself included).

You are right.... Flavour is the best

RIP FELA

Octaves:
What do you expect them to sing when auto-tune was doing the singing for them in the studio.
We dont have real vocalists in Naija (except for very few). All we have are commercial hit makers with no real singing talent. Put most of them on stage and give them a standard classic song to perform and 90% will flop so hard. Most Naija ppl dont even appreciate real singing talent. They love auto tune and could care less if an artiste is performing life or playing the very studio record u already have on ur i pad

bless you! this has been driving me batshit crazy. some youg punks here in nairaland have also joined the autotune train.

ekenetheorg:


You are right.... Flavour is the best

Simply put

DikeOha882:
Thank you,no nigerian artiste comes close to Flavour inlive performance. bar man give him 5bottles of hero beer.

Well some people might wnt to argue femi kuti's live band but to me, his band just makes noise compared to flavour's. You will be forced to move.

Ishilove:

I can just imagine

Sis don't just imagine. Try and get a GTB invite/pass for this years end of year party. Hopefully they invite him and if they don't, you have nothing to loose cos its free and always fun to go.

otokx:


Have you been opportuned to see FELA live in performance?

No, but I knew majorly all his performances were not lip-synched. Moreso, I did not mention Fela as one of those lip synchers we have around. Fela is in a class of his own.

9jabox:
Good music is literally dead in Nigeria. Our musicians don't know what a live performance looks like, what they do mostly is have the DJ play the song and they just jump around the stage lip-synching.

I remember a very shameful event that happened last year during the campaigns when Harrysong was performing energetically on stage not knowing that his mic was bad. All along, it was the dj's song that was playing until the moderator changed his mic.

Choi! See gbege lol

nigeriancuban:
9ice definitely stepping up his game too

Which 9ice The one that said studio equipments are destroying his voice or another I honestly don't understand.

safarigirl:
Asa is based in Europe and blew from there that's why she majorly performs there, it's not her live performances that make her a toast. Timi is a better artiste than Asa by any ramification, but you don't see him everywhere in Europe

Sister I think you're comparing apples to oranges. They're both good in their own way.

Some of them don't have a live band, u don't just wake up one morning and go for a show and expect an instrumentalists to score all ur songs both the drummer, guitarist, pianist etc...it requires series of practice, Flavour has a live band which I believe he works with time often and when he has a concert he then takes them along
Only a few Nigerian artists have live band crew..

Maybe they should be sensitized on that regard....BTW most of their songs are way too fast and difficult to sing without being played by a DJ.....just my own compelling opinion

efejoku mi o efejoku mi o......dats all we hear in shows now these days.....imagine a kind of lyric,,but the beat is amazing

Timaya is the beat live performer in Nigeria....i swear

Okay
Ayaf hear

Warlord3000:
I just think Timi is a big imitation of Lemar who also is an imitation of Jaheim so WTF...

BUT ASA.... wow

LOL @ imitation of Lemar .. Indeed, ASA is just so unique.. Her voice cannot be mistaken------it stands out.. Timi is also good (his coarse, rich voice) but never a match for Asa...

Good music is dead in Nigeria.. We worship the club & party bangers.. Lip-synching is the in thing for our musicians, reason being, they don't see music as a passion but a means of making money.. Fees offered them to do a live stage performance shouldn't be a major problem/excuse/setback to me if truly they have a burning passion for singing, and not the other way round..

It hurts seeing auto tune do the job better than their voices ..

That TIWA SAVAGE na THE WORST I swear!
No wonder Yemi Alade gian T.K.O for this year award matter!

Nasty "Chipmunk" vocals wey dey wound pesin ears!
Mtcheeeeeeew!

charix:
I seriously don't understand why this lip-syncing thing is even an argument, I don't see the point of it. Regardless if the artiste lip-syncs or not, I would enjoy value for my money. I came to see the artist not judge their voice performance.

However there is one other thing I paid to see - the stage presence. Too many Nigerian artistes do not have stage presence and the reason is because on regular show outings they are accustomed to performing on only one stage. This makes them hardly move about. Seeing Ne-yo make use of all five stages at the MAMAs set a record other african acts couldn't keep up with. I want promoters to build multi stage platforms our artistes can use in honing their skill to international standard.

If you're dying on seeing the artiste, why not hook up with him on one of his social media accounts, find out where he fields and visit the same so you could see him, or you put him in a grotto, have him wear a Santa Claus-like costume and shake hands with him

I don't mean to poke but your post makes no meaning. Over #5,000 people left their homes, parted with sums to see just one person. Is the glory of the sun on his face Live performances is not to judge the voice, never.

Your second paragraph is indeed saddening and disturbing. What has multiple decked stages got to do with stage movements Follow one of the links I provided and see how Jay Z and Beyonce choreographed "Young Forever" with a single stage. What would you say of Whitney Houston who does R&B/Soul or a typical Alicia Keys who doesn't leave her Grand Piano on the stage Or what do you say about Taylor Swift, though young, yet projects and beams confidence and grace as she walks to and fro the stage/aisle Decked, multiple or layered stages is solely to enhance the stage not the performance of artistes. Adele's live performance of "Someone like you" was executed beautifully with pacing. She stayed glued to her pianist till the end.

Stage presence is not in gallivanting but in managing whatever platform is put before you to use. There's no correlation between a giant sized stage and leaving an impression. Please go and watch some of N'Sync's performances as well as that of Mariah Carey and ENYA. You'll know what stage performance is.

Imagine Burna boy saying "Make una stand up abi na only rice una come chop?" Like seriously

I will rather listen and watch Fuji or juju musicians perform live on stage than pay to watch hip hop artistes hopping like frogs all over the stage and repeating their songs which I already have on my phone without adding anything to its