Lagos – Tunde Obe, a partner in the music duo called T.W.O, has called on budding artistes to allow themselves to be mentored by their senior and more experienced colleagues.
Obe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday that doing so would close the wide gap between established artistes and the upcoming ones.
He said that in the past, budding artistes usually learned the basics of the trade from the established ones.
He attributed the absence of mentoring in the music industry to the advent of gadgets such as computers, which he said, could be used to produce music outside the studio and without much effort.
“The era of mentorship is dead. When we started you have to be under somebody for a while.
“Not really under them like training, but most of us did backups for one person or the other, if not on stage, then in the studio because that was the era of live music.
“So you have to be part of the scene, people would have already been seeing you and your time too will come.
“But now, you can be in your house and once you have a correct software, you can put something, you can even mail the song to somebody before you know it, from your bedroom you can be a star.
“We didn’t have it so easy, there was nothing like technology back then, everything was done with sweat blood and tears men!
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“You have to pass through something or somebody.
“And there’s no way you will be passing through people and not be picking up from them, so that’s the disadvantage that the younger artistes have.
“Most of them don’t even know the older artistes personally, you know of them, but not that you have any rapport or relationship with anybody that is in the generation before you.’’
NAN reports that Obe and his wife, Wunmi, are a popular musical couple in Nigeria and have so far produced five albums together. (NAN)