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  • I cried when it was rumoured that I carried cocaine-Tope Alabi

    I cried when it was rumoured that I carried cocaine-Tope Alabi

    Popular gospel artiste, Tope Alabi recently turned 50. The anointed singer has recounted some of the travails she had to experience on her journey to the top.

    In a chat with BoomBuzz, the celebrated singer said she cried when it was rumoured that she carried cocaine, when she was even yet to travel abroad.

    “I cried when I heard rumour that I carried cocaine to London. I said: ‘I that I haven’t been to London, this won’t make them give me visa.’ I cried. My husband is a very wonderful man. He would say:’What is wrong with you’?

    On how she handles tough time, she said: “When such moments come, I would feel bad. I won’t even pray”.

     

    Asked if she ever thought her music would take her around the world, Alabi said:”I never thought my music would take me outside the shores of Nigeria. I wasn’t even expecting it.I thought this is the way we would be doing it and we would keep struggling. I bless God for that opportunity and it has never ceased since then”.

     

    Sharing some of the challenges she has encountered in the course of her career, the ‘Yes and Amen’ crooner said:”People want you to turn to another thing because you are a gospel musician. They want to put you in a box and say this is how you should move and if you check their status, these people who are talking, you will see wig, nails.I wear Gucci, Lou Vuitton and other designers now and people complain? Do you know how many times I borrowed clothes to shoot music videos? There was a day I went to shoot a video in my friend’s house. That my friend happens to be rich. So I needed extra cloth and I told her. She opened her wardrobe and told me she cannot allow me use any of her expensive clothes, adding that she can only allow me use one of her casuals”.

     

  • ‘Artistes no longer make money from CD sales’- GT Da Guitarman laments

    Nigerian singer and guitarist, GT Da Guitarman has stated that artistes no longer make money from CD sales. He disclosed that over the years, artistes have found other ways of making money for themselves.

     

    “I think the world has gone past the days when people are complaining about piracy and all, because at the end of the day, do people really buy CDs,” he said.

     

    “The music industry has been able to create new ways of generating revenue for itself. The advent of telecoms has really opened up the market somehow.

     

    “People make money from caller tunes and all of that. So, you just need to embrace the fact that CD sales would never be like the way it was back then.

     

    “Every advancement in technology is to our own detriment somehow but also it’s a form of promotion. What is content providing to someone is promotion to the other.

     

    “The worst thing that can happen to an artiste is not to be able to feed his fan base. So, some way somehow, technology is here to help us.

     

    “The music industry is growing and there is room for improvement. We just need to look at how to monetise music more and create an enabling environment for the musicians.”