Flavour a Nigerian singer and songwriter whose real name is Chinedu Okoli, has described a pivotal incident in his early career that changed the course of his musical career.
He attributes this change from a performer to a true recording artist to the legendary pair P-Square. On the “In My Opinion” podcast, Flavour talked about a time when he was doing a live performance and was asked to turn over the microphone when Peter and Paul Okoye, better known as P-Square, arrived.
He recounted being in awe as the pair ascended the stage and enthralled the audience with their hit song “Temptation.” Flavour emphasized their stage presence and distinctive sound when he commented, “The place was electrified.”
He said, “I was playing and immediately P-Square came in, the manager said ‘Hello, get off that thing!’ I switched off and passed the microphone, went somewhere and sat down. Girls were saying ‘wow wow wow’ and Paul of P-Square took the microphone with his voice and just sang ‘This na temptation’, everywhere scattered. So I was like ‘na the same music these people dey do, me dey here with una, una shout like this for me’. I was so cold, I was just watching, they did their thing. When they left, the manager turned and said ‘oya!’ then it started to occur to me that these guys, the difference is they create their own music, they make a sound and go to the studio and record and that’s how it’s done, and you are just a music man. So, how do I switch from music man to an artist? That was the difficult part of it, and I thought it was going to be easy because I could play, I could sing…but now to create your own sound, where are you going to start from?”
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