By Damilola Atoyebi
Upcoming music artistes have been advised to keep pushing out meaningful and educated content.
Adewale Damola Oguntade, popularly known as "Ajimovoix Drums" gave this advice while commenting on his colleagues' craft in a chat with our correspondent, on Friday.
Ajimovoix, said being creative, unique, and acquiring knowledge from senior colleagues in the industry, adopting the good ones makes a great musician.
The 32 years old artiste, who was brought up In Ikorodu Lagos state, added that his background and the support from his parents have inspired him to start playing and making music.
"Although I am a native of Okun Owa of Odogbolu local government area in Ogun State Nigeria,but I grew up in Ikorodu, Lagos".
He also added that music is an inbuilt inheritance for him.
"I was actually born in a semi-musical family of nine which all of us love music but for me, the history changed as I choose to do music with the support of my parents".
"All I do is music, the love I have for music is unconditional, despite my side hustle which is fish farming, In the next 10 years, I should be on the edge of my big and great dreams because the only competition has got is myself and I keep improving on it every day",he said.
He said: "Music is for the soul, listening to other people's sounds, and learning about their success and the records they’ve set around their names keeps me passionate. Moreover, I want to make my parents and family proud too. That's the reason I don't just make music but I pass out messages in all my songs
When I was in High School, the Agbamole Drum also called the Acuba was my favorite, I can also play other instruments like the talking Drum, Iya ilu, Omele, Samba, Bata Conga, and Agogo just to mention a few am good at playing, he listed."
Speaking on his creative process while writing new music, he said it mostly started by walking around the hood of Ikorodu Itunmoja axis just to see the state of the environment, then nature pushes in the inspirations then back to the studio after some while, and started with the chords, following by vocals and the rest is history, he said.
Ajimovoix noted that being a percussionist has helped him in performing effectively as a musician
Also speaking on his ideal musician to collaborate with, he said they are many of them, some are not musicians but record producers nevertheless, "I love the old version of 9ice from Nigeria and Dr. Dre, Timbaland, Quincy Jones from the United States".
The likes of Haruna Ishola, Ayinla Omowura, Ebenezer Obey, and king sunny Ade, these old generation songs lyrics, Inspire me, and all their body works are out of this world but wish I could sit next to them and witness their recording processes.
However, I have gotten loads of beats but to mention a few to my credits are Lagos scatter beat, Focus Dance Beat, Lagos street dance beat, etc, and 2 Ep named Border to Border and AFT (available for the street) and 1 Album titled THAT UNSERIOUS FOCUS BOY (T.U.F.B).
God has been faithful to me, and I have never experienced the worst performance in my entire career.
Speaking on weaknesses, "I am just human there many things I do not do normally even in music that I now learn and keep improving on them but let’s just keep that confidential.
My next favorite venue to perform is the O2 academy and Arena, he prayed.
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