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NewsEdge Online: Why I'm Still at the Top of my Game - Tubaba
NewsEdge Online: Why I'm Still at the Top of my Game - Tubaba: I nnocent Idibia, aka Tubaba, has been a superstar for more than two decades, yet his fans can’t have enough of him. Recently he was ...
Why I'm Still at the Top of my Game - Tubaba
Innocent Idibia, aka Tubaba, has been a superstar for more
than two decades, yet his fans can’t have enough of him. Recently he was
honoured with the award of fellow of the Department of Music, Obafemi
Awolowo University Ile-Ife. In this Interview with NEHRU ODEH he speaks about
why he was honoured, what the award entails and how he has been able to remain
relevant in the Nigerian music industry.
Congratulations on your
recent award as fellow of the Department of music, Obafemi Awolowo
University. How do you feel?
I feel good. I feel very blessed. I feel grateful. I feel so
much gratitude. It was a dream when we started this thing. It’s massive now. It
gives me great joy and happiness and gratitude to know that people have been
observing and have given me this honour to let me know that Guy, we dey see you since and we respect
wetin you dey do. So it gives great pleasure and happiness. I thank
everybody.
You have really
achieved great feats in the music industry. Did you envisage that someday you
would be made fellow of the department of music and honoured this way?
You know sometimes you dream, you see stuff but you know
reality is still real. When we started, the aim and the dream was to make
something out of it, go somewhere, grow with it and make a good mark. As it is
unfolding, you just thank God that people are actually recognizing, people are
actually paying attention, people are actually appreciating what you do. That
is the best feeling anybody, any musician can get, to feel that people are
actually appreciating and respecting your works.
What does being made fellow of the department entail?
First of all, like now,
now, nobody fit talk say I no finish school again (laughs). So I mean,
every once in a while I get to go to the school and deliver some lectures and
stuff. We fit start to dey sell handout
sef. You know that kind thing. Mr Lecturer (laughs). But that is basically it,
and just being a good ambassador of the people that believe in you. I donated a
recording studio and I hope they learn from it. I hope it helps. It’s a whole lot
of music theatre. The other thing that it entails is, like I said, to be a good
ambassador, to just come and exchange your knowledge once in a while with young
guys and girls in the school.
You’ve been on the
music scene for more than two decades now. And you are still very relevant. How have you
being able to be relevant, to still be on top of your game and l compete
favourably with younger artistes?
I think it is just by special grace, and the music, the fans
keep you alive. I tried to give my fans music that they would say this music he set, he tight, we enjoy am.
And that keeps them alive. And it keeps me alive. And we are happy ever after.
I still push myself. I still work and still know that there is a whole lot I
can still achieve. And then I just keep my head straight. I respect everybody, as I dey respect myself.
When is the digital studio
going to start functioning?
In a couple of months’ time. Like three months or there
about. I can’t really say. I mean na the
people go dey work na dem go know .
Are you going to make
sure that another Tubaba comes out of that project?
I hope so. That’s the reason. I hope a whole lot of young
guys use it and make something out of it
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