Musician Cobhams Asuquo Blast Nigerians Promoting ‘Jollof’ Music

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Despite being visually impaired, Cobhams Asuquo is a talented musician, producer, and songwriter and has continued to make himself relevant in the Nigerian entertainment industry.
The singer who recently covered the face of Guardian Life Magazine gave in details how he takes his time to make good music and his hopes for the Nigerian music scene.

While speaking on why most Nigerians don’t relate to his type of music as they so with other styles,


Cobhams said;
I think Nigerians are not responsive to a lot of music I feature because we have the radio, and the gate keepers control what we absorb and consider to be music. A lot of the time, what gets heavy rotation is what people want to hear on the radio, and in the clubs, and they become the standard while everything else becomes alternative.
For example, Waje released a song Koko Baby with Diamond Platnumz, which is a great song that can sit anywhere with songs from Flavor or anyone else. But because it was by Waje, who people consider to be an alternative artist, it made it to alternative charts as it wasn’t considered a popular or “Jollof” song. I think Nigerians respond to what we are fed by the radio, and TV, and a lot of the people who create the music which is now considered alternative either don’t have the means or don’t know how to put it in the right spaces where they could be heard.

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