By Kayode Afolabi
Popular gospel musician in Ondo State, Evangelist Lekan Remilekun Amos has lamented that Nigerian money bags are not ready to invest in gospel music.
The artiste, who disclosed this while speaking with EventDiaryLifestyle attributed this to lack of returns on investment made and greediness on the part of marketers.
“You don’t get back what you have invested in it and apart from this, the marketing is poor. The marketer wants to gain all the money at once while the artiste will not have anything to show for it”, he stated.
The son of late gospel legend¸ Dr. Remilekun Amos, however added that financial instability and lack or patronage are major challenges faced in the music industry.
His words, “our generations don’t listen to quality gospel music anymore but to dance to beats and my own type of music is what people refer to as the message gospel. Due to this, some people were trying to distract me, telling me what to do in order to please the world,”
Lekan, who released his first album in 2002 to commemorate his late father’s death urged young musicians to put all hope in God Almighty and keep praying without relenting.
Remilekun, who hails from Ilaje local government area of Ondo state, said his calling to music ministry is according to God’s direction / instruction for his life and he owes God his success in life.
“I see gospel music as my calling though it was not what I intended to do but the prediction was what I grew up to know”
“I believe God will not speak without signs. Right from my childhood days, I do see signs that God wants me to win souls for Him through songs.”
“I remember there was one almanac in 1987, I use the inscription on the almanac to compose a song, “Jesu to’..fun mi i wo ko” so I turned it to a song. Again each time I pick my bible, I tried to put the words into song and as time goes on, I developed myself.”
Post a Comment