Rivers state born indigenous musician God’swill Diepiriye Brown is someone who has been dancing and singing for a living and taking his indigenous Kalabari music to a greater height where his role models such as Sule Baricka Davies and Jimmy Rex Lawson have left. He is articulate, focused and strongly determined to making music his major career combining it with his undergraduate studies at University of Port Harcourt.
The
vivacious youngster, on Wednesday 3rd of July, 2019 had chat with www.towncrier.ng where he talked
about his developing interest in carving a niche in music and getting to a
level that will inspire others in the society. Read On.
EXCERPTS
What do you do presently?
I am a
musician and also a rapper.
What other genre of music are you into, is
it traditional music rapper?
I am a student of University of Port Harcourt involved in Dance Activities with my group. But music is my core interest.
What course of study are you undertaking at
University of Port Harcourt?
I am in the
department of Linguistic and Communication Studies at 300-Level.
Do you sing in your traditional Kalabari
language?
If it comes
to the type of music that I do, I am not limited as I can do all round genres
but I just decided to do Hip Hop and Afro Pop and some indigenous music. So, I
am using that to promote my culture and my music.
Have you produced any musical album so far?
There is no
album currently but I am looking forward to creating an album. I have done two
songs and I want to do more and add them together to make up an album.
Do you have any
challenge so far?
Like they
say the beginning is always tough, so for now I am kind of having financial
challenge and I believe with time things will get better.
When you say you are having financial
challenge, is it targeted for any project?
Yes, like in
terms of musical promotion in Nigeria if you are doing your songs or music it
needs promotion and this require money to make it go far and accepted by the
public. So, if you are doing a good song you still need to promote it to go
viral and people will know what you are doing.
Can you take us to your family background?
For my
family I stay with my father and my mum and we are Christians. I have a happy
home luckily. We are 5 in the family comprising of my father, my mother, me and
my two siblings. And my family is a kind of family that loves music.
Did your parents give you support in the
beginning as you went into music?
As for the
support of me doing music professionally, my parents have always been insisting
that I should go to school but they are not stopping me from doing music. But
they are concerned about my education and for me to take it serious but that I
can still do the music if I want to.
Do you have passion for any other thing in
life apart from music?
Apart from music I also love sports and I also love academics that is the reason I am in the university studying. And that is why I am putting everything that I have in making sure that it will all turn out well.
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How old are you?
I am 21
years old.
As a youth, what
message do you have for others out there?
My message
is all about hassling as this is a period in someone’s life when a person is
meant to look into the future and get some experience and exposure. So,
whatever it is that you are doing out there, just keep believing in doing what
you are doing that is positive to promoting development.
As a budding musician who are role models in
the musical industry?
If it is for the Kalabari traditional music, I have been influenced by someone like Sule Baricka Davies and I have been listening to his songs when I was younger and I kind love his songs and the message he passes. And I see the way people from Kalabari take the message in his songs so I believe if someone else comes up and still sing in Kalabari language it will be appreciated. And for the other way, I am highly influenced by Phyno and Olamide because they are the ones taking indigenous music …just cultural music to higher places throughout the country. I am looking at the view from their own perspective way of singing. If Phyno and Olamide can sing in their languages and it is admired and appreciated that means I can do the same for my people and promote my culture because we are Africans. So, it is not good for you to do much of music in the English language.