For high life singer, Sunny Neji, no one has the right to say his best days are over in the music industry. The singer has been responsible for some hit songs in the past, including ‘Tolotolo,’ ‘Oruka,’ ‘Mr. Fantastik.’
But in recent times, the younger generation of artistes have taken the shine off him and his contemporaries. Though he just released a single, titled, ‘Aeroplane Tuner,’ it is yet to be seen if it would reach massive heights.
The song captures the challenging period being faced in Nigeria and the need for people to remain resilient. While speaking with our correspondent, Neji lamented that human beings had a way of concluding when somebody’s days were over or not.
“Are they God? You can sit down and postulate; God decides. When you are alive, God is not done with you. And for everyone, there is an appointed time. For everyone who is gifted, there is a reason you have it.
Until God is done with you, nobody has the capacity to determine that.” He added that when he did ‘Mr. Fantastic’ he did not know he could do a song like that and the same applied to ‘Oruka’ too.
According to him, musicians only work as they are inspired, adding, “There is nobody who can enforce anything but God.” He continued, “Anyone who is a star today was unknown at some point. If it is easy, why are we not recording hit songs every day? It does not work like that. Do your best and you can never tell where it is going.”
Neji also insisted that he had never stopped doing music the way he did it in the past. To him, he still puts the same energy, time and other ingredients required. “I have seen people who spent huge money on artistes and they never blew. I know an artiste who has released three singles, been to South Africa and did expensive videos, yet nothing has happened. And someone could release a song without doing promotion, then he becomes a star overnight.
So you cannot scientifically sit down and determine these things.” With his new music, ‘Aeroplane Tuner,’ he hopes the song makes the impact he had imagined it could make He stated, “This song is new and I do not want to talk too much. I saw the vision and I have done my part; it is left for God to have the final say.”
