By Ejiofor Toochi
Nollywood Veteran actor, Patrick Doyle has slammed Grammy award-winning artistes, Burna Boy for disregarding his predecessors in the music industry.
He said that Burna Boy hasn’t done anything great, and that he and others are beneficiaries of the foundation laid by past artistes in the Nigerian music industry.
Taking to his Facebook page, he wrote, “The credit for the feats that appear to be puffing the likes of Burna Boy up have to be properly ascribed to the greats who cleared the thorny paths that have created pathways for his likes to walk through practically effortlessly.”
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“Burna Boy has not by himself done anything that can be remotely described as great. He and his peers are recipients of the labours of heroes past.”
Patrick Doyle advised other Nigerians artistes to acknowledge their diligent and truly pioneering predecessors who paved the way for them.
“Great artistes like SunnyAde, Fela Anikulapo, Majek Fashek, l k. Dairo and a galaxy of others who paved the way from the 60s to the 2000s. Greatness and great feats don’t exist in a vacuum.”
The 62 year old then appealed to people not to indulge Burna Boy. “Let us not contribute to the creation of an arrogant and obnoxious monster.”
Recall that Burna Boy recently caused some controversy by stating that Afrobeats lacked substance.
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Meanwhile, Popular Nigerian singer, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu well known as Burna Boy has set tongues wagging after he stated that Nigerian music has no life.
In a chat with Zane Lowe, a radio host, the musical said that he was disappointed in Nigerian music because it has no reflection of real-life experience.
According to him, most Nigerian songs are just purely for fun and really make no sense or reflect real-life issues, Burna Boy opined that the problem stems from the fact that the Afrobeat artists have no real-life experience.
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