Here’s a quick quote from High-life singer Flavour…
“Even if you don’t have money to spend, as long as you dress cool, act like a fine boy and up your swag, girls will follow you.” who agrees with him?
He said that in a recent chat with HIPTV while recounting his foray into music (how he moved from Enugu to Lagos).
“In Enugu at that time, I was coming out big, and Enugu is a small
city where everyone knows each other. So everyone knew the guy Flavour,
and it was so nice and cozy, but the money was not coming. It was all
about the girls because there are many universities here in Enugu so
there were many babes (laughs) and wherever you went, you would see
them. And they liked me so much so I was feeling myself, feeling what I
was doing. I felt that with the love I got from ladies here I could do
anything- go to any club. Things were just so easy for me and I began to
feel like a star, but I noticed that I wasn’t making money, and I
wasn’t pushing myself.
I had no competition so I forgot about my dream
to push myself across borders due to the distraction I got mostly from
women and then life in Enugu. Enugu is so chill, and the people want
everything easy. Even if you don’t have money to spend, as long as you
dress cool, act like a fine boy and up your swag, girls will follow you.
Then once in a while, you travel and come back, people will say that
this guy has not been in town and he just came back. Those are the kinds
of things people want to hear but it wasn’t working for me.
I had too
many distractions, and was just misbehaving. And then I decided to help
myself. No one could talk to me; everyone was just saying, “you’re doing
good”, because they were only seeing the small Enugu town. One day, I
said to myself, ‘is this how I’m going to become that musician, that
ambassador for music, that icon? The answer was ‘No’. So I decided to
push myself higher.
I had Obaino music in Alaba. He was interested in me, and when he
called about marketing my album, I came to Lagos to see him and that’s
how I began to get used to Lagos life. It was kind of difficult because
back then, I always travelled by ‘night buses’ in order to avoid the
hassles of the day. I didn’t care about the risks involved and even when
I got to Lagos, I had no place to stay. I had a friend but he would
always demand that I give him money to fuel generator but after he
collected money, he would switch off the generator after sometime I
would wake up at night due to the heat, so it was very difficult. But
finally, we’re here.”
On marriage “At this time, I’m still going to be concentrating on my music because
I don’t want to have my family and be all over the place, I want to
have time for my family. And with the way things are now, I will just be
all over the place trying to keep this and keep that and so on.”
Three things we don’t know about him
I don’t know things you don’t know but I will tell you things I think you don’t know.
No 1. I’m quiet and I’m original. I don’t like noise.
No 2. I like helping people. However it comes, if someone is in need,
even if it doesn’t concern me, I just like to help. That’s something I
do without even knowing.
No 3. I’m so blunt. I don’t care, I will tell you it has to be this way no matter who you are.
