My Fans Made Me A Town Crier - Sound Sultan

Jagbajantis star, Sound Sultan, has explained why he has not had any
major song that emphasises issues bothering Nigerians recently.

The singer whose "2010", a song about the epileptic power supply in
Nigeria, was a major hit, told Channels Television's Entertainment
Correspondent - Mayowa Ogundele- that he still sings conscious music
but that people don't look out for those songs as they should and that
they only wanted to use him as a town crier.

"That Sound Sultan is still here. He's not gone anywhere. It's the
people that are listening that are no longer there anymore."

He also complained that media stations, especially OAPs, did not play
some of his conscious music, which is why his fans do not get to hear
them.

"When the airplay reduces on conscious music, then people keep asking
me - have I stopped it. No! I have a song Temporary Turn Permanent and
that song - I shot a video to it but nobody played the video.

"I gave it (video) to them (media stations), the way I gave them other
songs but you'll never see it anywhere; Because I had inserts of the
subsidy riot and everything, people said it's too confrontational. I
don't feel it's like that.

"If you start depriving the people of the truth, they will never get
it," he said.

He also explained that he had all kinds of music, including the
feel-good ones on his album.

"You can't be too predictable with your music. You need to be a little
bit of everything. Even Fela (Kuti) had "Lady" as his song."

He urged fans who want more of his conscious music to search for them
because many of the OAPs (On Air Personalities) select which songs
they like and give them prominence, relegating other songs on the
album to relative obscurity.

"You should go and get that song. You should go and download it on
iTunes," he said, adding that artistes only get courage to shoot music
videos when the songs have good airplay.

Sound Sultan also said he's tired of being a mouth-piece because it
makes people lazy to demand their rights.

"What I try to spark from people is individualism. For you to know
that everybody is a part of that voice that those people (implying
government) need to hear."
--Channels