The Good, The bad, The Ugly.
Why is it difficult?
I believe we're making a difference. I believe we're putting history right.
Superstar musicians are humans afterall. In Africa, we only want to talk about their good and sweet sides, we want to ignore their weaknesses and failures. We don't want to hear about their exuberance and mistakes,.
Why do all successful people boast about their success alone but prefer to hide or distort their stories of failure.
Is it a crime to have weaknesses?
Is it an abomination to use help from other people?
Known musicians mostly are like that.
We're not Oyinbos.
The success and weaknesses/failures of Michael Jackson whose middle name should be 'Issues'(He had a lot of them) is in public domain, James Brown who had multiple marriages and had cases of domestic abuse on his neck, Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, Whitney Houston, Barry White who had children out of wedlock, Frankie Lymon not to talk of Late Papa Wemba and Koffi Olomide who was arrested at a time for assault and even sentenced for rape.
All that will be made hush-hush in Nigeria and treated with utmost secrecy.
Secrets that only fuel rumours.
Obafemi Awolowo, MKO Abiola, Akintola Ladoke, Ebenezer Obey, Sunny Ade, Jide Kosoko, Adebayo Salami, Baba Sala, Shina Peters and others. All these people had/have weaknesses and had their share of failure too.
Anyway, we'll keep asking questions till we can put together an academic book in which our stories will be kept and told at the same time and from which the richness of our talents can be best appreciated.
That is the idea behind A Ki Won Dé'lé on Agbaletu. Soon, I'll post the list of those I've spoken to on Agbaletu.
