Five major steps of becoming a successful musician successful musician Music is everything about life, music is about the story of life and everything in the universe. It is an important part of existence. Man cannot do without music. And without music in this world, man would become beasts, because there would be nothing to feed their hungry souls and spirits. That’s why some said that music is the food of the soul. Anyone can sing, once you can talk, you can sing and become successful in your musical career, being successful in your musical career, does not depend on your natural sweet voice. It depends on what you know, and the work you have to put through to be a better musician. If you are looking for the ways to improve in your musical career and get a head of time; know all you need to know earlier at the beginning of your journey as an aspiring musician. Or you have striving with music without making any headway this page is for you. The following are the steps to achieving y...

Why wizkid music will out-live that of Davido's Reasons why wizkid sounds will stand the test of time comparing to one of his strongest contender in the Nigerian music industry- in the place of David Adeleke, popularly called, Davido. Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, who is popularly known by the stage name Wizkid. Is, indeed, one of the Nigerian most successful afrobeat musician; whose music is popular all around the world. From the street, to the music studio at the early stage of his life, Wizkid has never disappointed his fans. These are the reasons why his song will outlive that of his competitor Davido 1. Wizikid first studio album which he realized in the year 2011, was vast and also original, from the onset wizkid was not trying to sound like anyone, he only wants the world to hear his voice, speaking from the depth of his soul-through his music. His album was made up of varieties of songs and he was not afraid to express himself through any means musically. And that was the begi...

How p-square sold out both locally and internationally with their music videos Music is an art of creativity, and to sale your art you need to be genius in marketing skills, marketing skills is an art that only few can master. Psquare, apart from being so good with the music they do, they also realized the importance of making good music videos at that particular point in time; in the beginning of their journey in the music industry; when music video was shabbily done amongst artistes. Making music video has always been expensive, not to talk of making a standard music videos. Being good dancers and good recording artistes the duo, knew that they needed a captivating videos to shoot right into the hearts of their fans easily. Everyone loves good things, so good music videos should not be an exception. Especially when it’s like you are having it on a platter of gold. After Seneiorita’s video which was not that standard, the visual was a bit blurry, and they released their second studi...

How to write great songs Song writing is an art that needs to be mastered. It’s also a profession that can put food on your table. All around the world, music is a serious business. Starting from the instrumentalists, to song writers, to performer and the artistes in question. Developing the skills of song writing and being the best in it is one of the best thing can ever happen to you. If you are a song writer, and you want to be a professional song writer, learn keyboard or guitar, it will help you a lot. Many hit songs was written at the punch of a finger on a note in a keyboard, or a strike of a string on the guitar. These two musical instrument are powerful musical instrument that will help you make your journey of being a professional song writer easier. Have in mind what you want to write about; let’s take love for instance. Love, is a vast phenomenon, so the song writer has to be specific about what he/she wants to wri...

WHY TUFACE IS A LEGEND AND ONE OF THE BEST VOICE, IN AFRO BEAT MUSIC Has there been an Afro beat artiste celebrated and decorated like Innocent tuface Idibia who belonged to the same generation from the year 2000 till date? Like he is being called tubaba; Baba is a Yoruba dialect which means father. Every father is expected to be a mentor, protector, provider and above all the head. From the time he was in the defunct Plantainshun boys group; which introduced him to fame. He was the lead vocalist. And he was the lead vocalist by merit. Tubaba from the era of plantainshun boys has a melodious voice. His voice is out of this world and he can perform magic with it. And that gained him a lot of fans, even when he was in the group. People always look up to his verse in every song in the group and he never failed. He has always delivered. In 2004, he released his debut album titled from ‘’Grass to Grace’’ since that year he has been relevant till today. Winning awards, making hits upon h...

Why most musicians fail to make more hits after getting to limelight  Most people wonder why it’s hard for most musicians to keep giving the itching ears the hit songs they yawn for. Most artistes came to lime light with just one hit song, and after that you won’t hear from them anymore. While some will come up with few hits and then retire. Some will be lucky enough to reign for a couple of years with a good number of hits, and boom they are off the stage. What could be the cause of this, could it be coming from the fans or the artistes themselves. You can’t talk about which song is hit without the fans, it has always been the fans. It’s only the fans that has the capacity to decide which song is hit or not, or which artiste is good or not. The roles of the fans in determining the hit song and the artistes to always listened to, is unquantifiable. We would be looking at why most musicians fades after making one or few hits. 1. SOME MUSICIAN BECAME TOO LAZY TO WORK HARDER WHEN T...

Afrobeat taking over from pop music, to rule over the music industry, as the most listed genre Afrobeat is the new genre of music that will soon take over the pop culture by storm. Pop music has been there since 50s while the new Afro beat that is about taking over from the pop culture, is barely 25 years old. Popular music, widely known as pop music, is over seventy years old, while the new afro beat now is getting to its twenty five years. Yet moving with the speed of light. Afro beat is the brand of music from the western part of Africa precisely Nigeria, southern part of the country. Just pop music, Afro beat is also the music of the young people and the younger generation, embraced the culture, 99% of the people that are into pop and Afro beat are young people, from 50 years downwards. Today’s Afro beats is structured and arranged like the pop music, its duration lasts from 2 to seven minutes. It has a repeated chorous with two or more verses. Afro beats goes with collaboration ju...

The forerunner of afrobeats   No doubt, Fela Kuti, a Yoruba musical god, from the southern part of Nigeria created his own sound, which is today known as Afro beat music. There was nothing like Afro beat before Fela came to the arena of African music. Striving to make his own impact in the musical world, he created Afro beat music. Before now, what we have then in the southern part of Nigeria was, fuji, juju, apara and sakara music from the southwestern part of Nigeria and egwu nkwa and egwu ekpiri from the southeastern part of Nigeria. Fela kuti, after studying music in London, joined several musical bands and performed in many occasion. When he became tired of learning and performing western music, he decided to come back to his home country Nigeria, to continue his musical career. In the southwestern part of Nigeria then, the most popular music in the western part of Nigeria was fuji, and Highlife which came from Ghana. And as at then, Nigeria was making music with their own ver...