
The foreign music videos were better than our locally produced ones.
Despite hits such as :
Nico Mbanga (Sweet Mother), Osita Osadebe (Osondi Owendi), Oliver de Coque (Boni boni identity), Mandy Brown (Taxi driver), Onyeka Owenu (One Love), Lorine Okotie (His love is that medicine), Charly boy (Before Before) Chris Okotie (ABC), Evy Edna Ogoli( Happy Birthday), Felyx and Mozes( Free), Felix Liberty(Ifeoma), Stella Monye (Nigeria go survive), as seen in one of my articles "The blossoming Of The Nigerian Music Industry", artistes failed to make the desired impact in the International scene, based amongst other things on the colossal deficient video quality account.
The 90's era was not dramatically better than the 80's, probably the mid 90's when the genre of music towed the path of rap / hip hop and the use of our local parlance in songs began to make the music industry more entertaining as opposed to the 80's. The Remedies (Edris Abdulkareem, Eddie Montana, Tony tetwila) keyed into it and became the rave of the moment at that time. Plantation Boyz (Tu face Idibia, Faze, Black Face) were incredible and soared to greater heights before the group split. The launching ...
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