Producer Wants Musicians To Improve On Lyrics

A Port Harcourt-based music producer and marketer, Chief Okeke Nnaji has called on new generation musicians to improve on their songs by writing good lyrics with meaningful message instead of singing gibberish and praise singing to get money from politicians and wealthy individuals in the society some of whom he said made their money by dubious means.

The  seasoned producer and Chairman Land and Sea International Agencies limited who stated this in an interview with The Tide Entertainment, urged the young musicians to emulate the older ones who sang Evergreen songs that were meaningful, philosophical and educative and made them the toast of the Nigerian music industry.

He said they should go back to the drawing board, check what the doyens of the Nigerian musicians of yester years did in order to improve on their career and meet up with the required standards. According to him, most of the music today corrupt the mind and the society at large while some of their music Videos promote immorality to the highest level.

Chief Nnaji, who is also the Obodo-Kordike of Enugu State, enjoined the young new generation singers not to emulate everything that is happening in the Western World because Nigeria has  cultural and way of life. He therefore, called on the censors board and other regulating bodies to ban such immoral music videos while the Radio and Television stations should desist from airing meaningless songs as a way of sanitising the industry.

He also noted that piracy is another endemic problem confronting the music industry as some unscrupulous persons pirate the works of others, thereby reaping where they did not sow, while the original owners are impoverished. He stressed that this unfortunate situation is a major bane of the musicians and must be checkmated to save the industry from total collapse.