JOHNNY DRILLE EXPLAINS WHY HE CHOSE FOLK MUSIC | MICAVY

JOHNNY DRILLE SAYS HE CHOSE FOLK MUSIC TO AVOID SOUNDING LIKE DAVIDO

JOHNNY DRILLE

Popular Nigerian artiste who is still a little new in the music industry explains that he doesn't want to sound like Wizkid or Davido.

Johnny Drille who recently collaborated with Simi for a song titled 'hallelujah', has told us that is fear of sounding like two of Nigerias hot stars Wizkid and Davido, made him stick with folk music.

The Nigerian artiste said the only way his music could be heard was to do music different from the Afropop genre which Davido and Wizkid hold the title.

He explained: "When i came into the industry, I saw that it was saturated with artistes doing AFROBEAT and AFROPOP, and they were many. i thought of a way to make people listen to me.

I reasoned that if i wanted to sound like Davido or Wizkid, i might not be able to make an impact. Settling for folk music was an experiment that worked for me. Initially, My PR didn't agree with me, as he felt Nigerians weren't ready for folk music. But i believed in my first song titled ";LOVE DON'T LIE". The response was not massive but it was encouraging enough to make me put out more songs.

For my first song, I had over 17 versions and its like that for most of my songs , Before i put out a song, it has to blow my mind first. If it doesn't sound exciting to me, I don't release it. There are many sounds people are yet to hear in Nigeria; I am just lucky, The challenge is that Africans are proud of their culture and they don't like to adjust. The sound is not African but i had to look to look for a way to infuse the African element in it for Nigerians to relate well to my music.