A popular musician and recording artiste, Akintunde Brown says Nigerian musicians can now not win Grammy award due to the fact “we sing in our nearby dialect and the sounds are poor.”Brown disclosed this whilst speakme with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday.
“We have sounds from different parts of Africa, the combination will make it a world class sound however we are not complying with that,” he said.Brown said Nigeria’s hip hop and different genre do no longer conform to world song standards.
“We additionally do not use the proper nomenclatures which consists dynamic and partly subjective set of songs, which can be identified with the aid of having been carried out or recorded with the aid of variety of musical acts, frequently with unique arrangements.
“At the Grammys, you have a nice R&B album category, but any person who calls his tune Afro-Soul, or fuji Blues and some other names in Nigeria, cannot win in that category,’’ he saide stated Sikiru Adepoju who in 2009 won the “Best World Contemporary World Music Album’’ used to be because he was phase of Mickey Harts crew Planet Drum US-1991.
“Ayodeji Balogun, popularly acknowledged as “Wizkid’’ got a nomination for his contribution in One Dance via Drake in the album of the year category.
“That music as been streamed over a billion times, that is what data, brings to the table.hey create category, when they sense like honouring an artiste and their human beings ought to be involved,’’ he said.
Brown stated that the genre of song we create in Nigeria can not combo with what obtains in the worldwide music.
“David Adeleke aka Davido and Olamide Adedeji, and their likes do no longer even stand a single chance to win anything due to the fact the beats and sounds are nothing to that of.Winds of Samsara’’ reached No. 1 on the US New Age Album Billboard Charts and additionally peaked at No. 1 on the Zone Music Reporter (ZMR). Top a hundred Radio Airplay Chart in the month of July 2014.’’
The musician stated that the monetary fee of many musicians overseas did no longer equal that of Nigerian musicians, he gave examples of Bruno Mars’ average nightly gross swelled from 130,000 greenbacks to 202,000 dollars.
“Esperanza Spalding went from 20,000 greenbacks to 32,000 greenbacks and Taylor Swift jumped from 125,000 bucks to 600,000 dollars.
“They’re all paying tax in the US, the domestic of Academy. Their financial system does not have some thing to achieve if an African wins,’’ he said.
He mentioned that lack of facts and lack of excellent tune has been the problem in Nigeria.
“Besides Fela, who else has commanded the kind of appreciate he had,” he said.
He stated that Asa should have, had it been she was once greater intentional with her sound however the she risks authenticity with her core fans and that is the French and Europeans.
“They enjoy the flavour in her sound besides having them depart their comfort sector which is classical music,’’ he said.
He claimed that even at domestic some awards like Headies, Soundcity and MtV Base awards, the variety one trouble comes from the ever altering nature of genres here.
“You can imagine Olamide getting angry due to the fact Nasty C received fantastic rap music of the year. They have to be regular in what they do,’’ he said.
He stated that the Grammy organizers don’t have that time.
“I comprehend we will get there, our industry nonetheless in its infancy however we have to infuse our own sounds in Nigeria with different African countries.
“We need to have that wonderful sound, compose them well, infuse them well to make a good meaning, that will stand us out.
“But there have to be enchancment on our track structure, set up genre and now not constrained to time signature as stated above, and majorly label backing,’’ he said.
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