INTERVIEW: Why I left Nigeria - Mike Okri | Premium Times Nigeria

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INTERVIEW: Why I left Nigeria – Mike Okri

My intention was just to be in the states for just two years, get myself situated, and get my music career going again. Sadly, that wasn’t the case. I had issues with how do I get situated and not defy the laws of the land. While my lawyers were working at it, I was trying to get myself a record deal. Around that time, a particular record label I wanted to get signed on to arrived in Africa and I was in the states, I could not come back.

PT: Some of your contemporaries, Alex Zitto, Alex O, The Mandators, Dizzy K, also left the shores of the country. Are you in touch with any of them?: I’ve been close to a few. Mandators and I met a couple of times at the radio station when we were being introduced and that was around 2004/2005. We live almost in the same country. We both live in Los Angeles but you know the place is huge.

We need more authenticity, we need more originality but we can get away from the cliché of just recycling old songs to the point where we don’t even give credit to the original singers. We need that because why the music industry is so huge and people are living on their estates is because people worked for their values. In America where there are laws, in the UK where there are laws, you cannot infringe on copyright just like that.

 

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