Popular Nigerian singer Chinedu Okoli, widely known as Flavour N’abania, recently opened up about how the now-defunct music duo PSquare had a profound impact on his career trajectory.
Speaking on the In My Opinion podcast, Flavour recalled a pivotal moment early in his career when he encountered the legendary twin brothers, Peter and Paul Okoye, who once dominated Nigeria’s music scene with countless hit songs and awards.
Flavour recounted that he had been performing live on stage when PSquare entered the venue. According to him, their manager promptly asked him to hand over the microphone to the duo. He obliged and stepped aside to observe.
As PSquare began their performance, Flavour noticed how the crowd, especially the female fans, erupted with excitement. That moment struck a chord with him. He realised that PSquare’s music wasn’t just about sound it had a magnetic quality that connected deeply with the audience.
The Ada Ada singer admitted that this encounter led him to reflect on his own approach to music. Although he could sing and play instruments, he began to understand the need to transition from simply being a musician to becoming a full-fledged artist who could captivate an audience.
I was playing and immediately PSquare came in, the manager said ‘Hello, off that thing!’ I switched off and passed the microphone, went somewhere and sat down. Girls were saying ‘wow wow wow’ and Paul of PSquare took the microphone with his voice and just sang ‘This na temptation’, everywhere scattered. So I was like ‘na the same music these people dey do, me dey here with una, una shout like this for me’. I was so cold, I was just watching, they did their thing. When they left, the manager turned and said ‘oya!’ then it started to occur to me that these guys, the difference is they create their own music, they make a sound and go to the studio and record and that’s how it’s done, and you are just a music man. So how do I switch from music man to an artist, that was the difficult part of it and I thought it was going to be easy because I could play, I could sing…but now to create your own sound, where are you going to start from?”
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See some comments below;
@Holy_ake:“Something must be done differently to make it… accept every challenge and stop thinking everyone is there to outshine u.”
@Ujah_bright:“Motivation.”
@Funky1040:“Very natural guy always says it as it is.”
@Ritashairglam:“And now flavor is one of Nigeria’s most recognized Artist just like PSquare.”
@Otorroseline:“He’s real.”
@Slytechi:“Hello off that thing .”
@Ebubenna__kelvin:“Ijeleeee. Na Peter spoil PSquare, he got jealous .”
@Old_and__new:“Life is stage by stage.”
@Iamoriginal1:“And then you came out and became the best east Artist .”
@Mavmozelle:“…and you’re not just an artist now. You are a Global Evergreen Artist . Vision .”
