Nigerian singer Chimamanda Pearl Chukwuma, better known by her stage name Qing Madi, has claimed that the music business is just as profitable as the “drug” industry.
In a recent episode of the Tea With Tay podcast, Qing stated that a single performance can earn an artist what the typical Nigerian worker makes in a year or years.
The 19-year-old claimed that music has given her financial independence, but she doesn’t show off her wealth online because she doesn’t want it to define who she is.
“Music money is not normal, it is like drug money. I don’t think people know how… And I’m not the person who would buy stuff and put on the media because I do think that that would change the narrative of what I am to the media. And I don’t like people looking at me and seeing money. But I am rich.
“The average Nigerian works 9-5 and earns maybe N500,000 at the end of the month, while as an artist, you do one show and get N20 million. Music money is huge,” she said.
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