TUNDE Akinsanmi, a leading member of Styl Plus, has revealed that he decided to go solo because other members of the pop music group, were not welcoming his ideas.
In a recently-held interview with Leadership, the R&B singer who’s preferably called by his first name, admitted that Styl Plus was on a downward spiral. And according to him, there was a need to change how things were being done.
Tunde said the group wasn’t getting shows anymore, and wasn’t recording new songs, adding that he got restless at a point of his musical career.
His words; “Most of the time there are different reasons why people break up, I believe you have to agree to be together. I have to trust you to have good intentions for me for it to work, once all these are questionable, it can’t work the way it supposes to.
“Let me put it this way, it’s really something that is not that serious, I’m a happy guy at this point in my life. I like getting things done, creating things and if the only way I can work with you is compromised then there is a problem. For a long time, we have been working together because I decided to do things in certain ways.
“I’m a loyal guy, I might branch to other things till when you are ready. As at that time in 2012 when I left, we weren’t getting shows anymore and we weren’t recording new songs, people always asked the question where is Styl-Plus? Why are you not doing a new album?
“How will it be that when they call Styl-Plus we are doing songs we did in 2006 and so on, what happened to us doing new songs, imagine you call 2face and the song he still singing is African Queen ” and that’s all you can add to his name, I got restless and I decided to do other things, which I thought if they were cool with that, we could still work together, but they didn’t want that at that point it was like we were on a downward spiral and nothing was happening.
“I’m the kind of person that when I have an idea and I have a conviction for some reason why it should work, I go ahead with it, irrespective of the 99 reasons why it won’t work, I tried to magnify the one reason why it should work and go on with it.”
Founded in 1997, Styl-Plus thrilled music fans across the country between the time it was established and early 2000.
Aside from Tunde, other founding members of the group were Shifi Emoefe, Yemi Akinwonmi, and Lanre Faneyi.
A year after the group was established, Faneyi died, and Zeal Onyecheme joined the group.
In 2002 Akinwonmi left the group and the musical band became a trio without adding a new member. In 2003, the group founded its own record label, STYL-PLUS.
In February 2017, it was reported that Tunde left the group in 2012, leaving Shifi and Zeal as the flag bearers of the group.
The group has songs like Four Years, Iya Basira, Runaway, Olufunmi, amongst others to its credit.
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