‘Music and Minds’ holds Christmas party

…Urges Nigeria musicians to promote love, unity

Up- and- coming musicians in the country have been urged to play music that will promote love, peace and unity in society.

Speaking at the 4th annual Christmas party of the Music and Minds Group of Nigeria which took place recently in Lagos, one of the founding members of the group, Akin Fatunke stressed the need for young musicians to learn from the old musicians both living and dead, who through their works have positively impacted lives of the listeners.

According to Fatunke, music like, afro beat, high life among others were based on research and continuous rehearsal of the lyrics before they were being played to the public. “What we have today is cut and paste; technology has taken over. There is need for today’s musicians to carry out proper research before coming up with any music, and by so doing, they will come up with music that will bring knowledge, peace and joy to the minds of the listeners,’’ he added.

On the event which tagged, ‘Meet and Greet’, Fatunke said: ‘’It is specially put together for friends and enthusiasts who have interacted virtually on Whatsapp, to meet physically at least once in a year, to put faces to names, to embrace, enjoy unity in diversity, and reinforce that music is a force for peace and conflict resolution”.

Speaking also at the event, another pioneer member of Music and Minds Group, Skidd Ikemefuna, described the gathering as a wonderful idea that brings together creative people in Nigeria.

“It is a meeting point for all the creative people in the country, including; artists, actors, actresses, song writers among others so as to share ideas and to see what is happening globally and adopt it locally,’’ Ikemefuna said.

On the other hand he appealed to government to come up with a legislation that will censor the music lyrics before such music is played to the public.

To him, some musicians of today have not in any way positively impacted lives of the young ones.