GHANA: Wanluv Kubolor’s Advice has Helped me – Mr. Eazi
10 January 2020
by Eugene Brown
Ghanaian-based Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Mr Eazi, has said that listening to his colleague artist, Wanluv Da Kubolor, has really helped his career.
He also revealed that the advice, which was given to him five years ago during a “waakye” hangout had a great impact on his business. According to him Wanluv suggested some steps he (Mr Eazi) should take to protect his intellectual property.
“in 2015, while we ate beans at Dzorwulu, Wanluv advised me on how to get myself accrued in business. He enlightened me on copyright law, licensing and publishing, something I thought was a waste of time,” he said in an interview on Joy FM’s Showbiz A to Z on Saturday.
“To me, I had only come to him to shoot a video because I had seen a video he shot for Sena Dagadu,” he continued.
The the pioneer of Banku music — a fusion sound he describes as a mixture of Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian chord progressions and patterns— further revealed that the days that followed after the conversation energized him into researching the craft and right afterwards his songs were all well registered.
“A friend of mine introduced me to a book afterwards; ‘Empire State of Mind’ a book which was not up to two hundred pages and that became my manual. Even before then, I thought I knew a lot until I found out a small boy somewhere had formulated a registration platform...I brought him to myself and tapped into his knowledge base,” he revealed.
Born Oluwatosin Ajibade, Mr Eazi is now the C.E.O of emPawa Africa, a company which promotes, manages and market talents.
Mr. Eazi also organizes the annual Detty Rave concert in Ghana. This year, the concert brought Rick Ross as Year of Return and received massive crowds.
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