Popular singer, Wizkid has revealed how COVID-19 lockdown improved his artistry.
Speaking with British media personality and DJ, Zane Lowe, on Apple Music Radio, Wizkid said that the lockdown which was globally put in place to curtail the spread of COVID-19, exposed him to making music from “a real place.”
While stating that he missed going on tours and performing live, the music star maintained that the fact that he started making music from home is a satisfaction he can’t explain.
His words: “As human beings, I feel like we have our survival instincts, right. So when everything happens we all just automatically… You just switch into survival mode, like, “Okay, yeah, this is what we’re doing. This is what the world has come to. So we need to keep moving forwards.” That I put that in mind.
“Secondly, it’s like I love performing, I love the energy from people. So where you don’t get that, I feel like the crazy times were hard but as I see it made everyone understand what is important in life.
“And us artistes you… This is the first time where everyone’s kind of slowed down and paused in like a minute. Like, “Oh no one is really touring and jumping around.” So everyone’s home.
“Like there’s a more human, like you’re a little bit more human. I feel like that reflects in the music. And so now it’s like, “Oh whoa, you see things a little bit clearer.” Because sometimes you make music, you get in the club, you’re touring, but that’s like…
“You can be stuck in a place that is not real when you’re on the road, and you’re making music like that. But when you’re home and you’re really going through everything like a normal human being it’s like… You just realize music comes from a real place.
“Especially when the music comes from a real place for you as an artist and for me it does. So right now it’s like, I’m making some of the purest, realist music I’ve ever made in life.”