Award-winning musician and songwriter, Oluwadare Art Alade, whose road to stardom started early in life, bares his mind to NKARENYI UKONU about a wide range of issues, including his life, music and marriage Some of the songs in your second album Un-Darey-ted were quintessential you. But you also experimented with fuji, high life, pop, etc., which people couldn‘t relate with you. Why didn‘t you just remain in your comfort zone?
In Nigeria, we like to box people, put them in a corner and say, ‘this is the kind of music you should be doing;‘ but as a musician, you should be able to express yourself. It depends on when the inspiration comes, it could have any flavour or format. With my second album, I would say I grew musically, compared to the first. You can‘t tell until you make the music and get the feedback and as a musician, you need people‘s feedback to enable you to segment your market, so that in subsequent releases, you now find a way to mix what each segment likes without losing your identity.
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