POPULAR fuji musician, Wasiu Alabi, aka Pasuma, has lamented that young artistes don’t like to sing the genre of music.
During a live chat with indigenous actor, Kolawole Ajeyemi, the self-acclaimed Oganla 1 said he is yet to see a young artiste consistent in doing fuji music.
According to him, young artistes prefer to sing hip-hop rather than fuji music.
He said, “It is sad that budding fuji artistes now prefer to sing hip-hop. After Shanko Rasheed and his set, we are yet to find other young artistes doing fuji music. Even Destiny Boy that was meant to do fuji has decided to focus on hip-hop.”
Speaking on his plans to project new fuji music talents, the singer revealed, “After this COVID-19 pandemic, we have plans to organise a competition for talented fuji artistes. We keep seeing the same faces in fuji music circles, unlike the hip-hop genre where new talents are discovered every time. We would do whatever we can to grow fuji music.”
Indisputably, fuji music is the in-thing for many and a hybrid of afro-pop genre of music. According to Wikipedia, it is a popular Nigerian musical genre that arose from the improvisation of Ajisari, which is a kind of music performed to wake Muslims before dawn during the Ramadan fasting season.
It may interest one to know that Pasuma isn’t the first fuji musician to raise concern over the fading-off of the genre. Some years ago, Dr. Adewale Ayuba, a celebrated award-winning fuji musician of international repute, admitted that the genre was dying.
As a music enthusiast, do you agree with the submission that fuji music is gradually facing out?
