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I was anchoring a gospel music concert recently in Lagos and I noticed three of the guest artistes sang the same song. It is one of the popular gospel songs. I don't want to mention the song and the artiste here but seriously I can't really explain how I felt that evening. Most of our young gospel artistes are not learning. There's so much to learn from the secular artiste but religion has blinded the minds of most young gospel artistes. This secular guys understood some deep secrets about music success and influence. You kept shouting ministry, ministry. Can I just tell you something serious? Ministry needs influence for greater impact.. yes you read that right. Study the life of Bishop Oyedepo, you will understand how he got where he is today. He had a mindset about ministry that propel him to build value. We can't keep doing this. If you are an artiste, you should be hungry to produce a song that the world can worship with. If the world can worship with, then it ha...

SCHOOL OF MUSIC:: Few years ago, I saw a movie titled dream girls. Beautiful movie, featuring Beyonce, Jenifer Huddson, Jamie Fox and others. It is a musical film and I totally enjoyed the movie... This post is not so much about the quality of the movie but about a statement Jamie fox made in that movie that changed everything for me. Jamie fox and his friend owned a record label with one artiste signed to the label. Jamie's friend wrote a beautiful song for the artiste. She sang the song so well, the final recording, mixed and mastered was presented to Jamie fox to listen to. Jamie listened to the song for a few seconds and said to them that this is not the song they should release for this artiste. His friend was shocked and he said to Jamie fox that the song was the right song because it has a very very good message. Then Jamie looked at him and said.. "A song is not supposed to just have a good message, a song is supposed to sell" You see that Statement right t...

SCHOOL OF MUSIC: YOUR MINDSET VS INFLUENCE. I once read an interesting story about a little boy who was troubling his father, out of frustration, his father took a paper that had the picture of the world map on it, tore it into pieces and gave it to the little to arrange the paper back to form the map of the world. In his mind, the little won't be able to get it right because he doesn't even know the names of all the countries in the world, let alone knowing their position on the map. To his amazement, the little got the map arrange in just a few minutes and got it arranged correctly. His father was shocked at such brilliance and inquired of the boy to know how he was able to make this happen. The little boy smiled and told his father that at the back of the map of the world, is a picture of a man. So what he did was to get the man's picture arranged correctly, once the man is right, the world is right too. Amazing right? Yeah. Today I want to speak to you about your mi...

SCHOOL OF MUSIC: BE THE INFLUENCE While experience 2019 was going on, I had a chat with a friend about the ministration of some of the artistes at the experience. As we talked, he said something serious and I need you listen. He said why do we have planet shakers instead of Hillsong? I told him that it's possible they are reserving Hillosng for later. As we talked I said to him that only Hillsong alone is enough for a full a edition of Experience Concert as they won't even be able to finish their hit songs if they start singing from 7pm till 6am. If you know and listened to both Hillsong and Planet Shakers, you would agree that Hillsong is a better choice always. Both group from same country (Australia), with the same kind of music, same message even but one (Hillsong) is the Influence. As I look back at this last Experience, EBEN, MERCY CHINWO, SINACH and TRAVIS GREEN spark up something serious in me. Back to back stage Influence from start of their ministration till e...

SCHOOL OF MUSIC: PERSONAL BRANDING AS AN ARTISTE. I know this might take awhile for some of you to understand sha, but it's fine. I will keep at it until just one person gets it. I wanted to do a live video today but somehow I got busy.. I will need you to read the gist in the pictures attached to this post and understand a few things about personal branding as an artiste and how serious this matter is. Maybe not now but in future it will be more serious. In my first live video I did on Sunday after Experience, I mentioned this issue of artiste going to perform other people's songs and getting paid for it. Some people think I was taking this matter too far but truly it is a very serious matter. Yesterday I wrote a lot about Influence and how your songs can create Influence for you. In business that's actually personal branding. Your songs are your brand, your trade mark. As an artiste, you don't really have an "identity" musically without a song. Every Bra...

SCHOOL OF MUSIC:: SCIENCE OF INFLUENCE In life, it is not so much about what you do but "HOW" you do them. This is very important for any artistes or anyone in life who wants to build Influence. Listen, most people who are Influential in any Field of endeavors and are making the most money in those fields are not the most talented or necessarily the best in that field but they are those who know "HOW" to do what they do in such a way that commands attention. Think about that for a moment. The fact that you are not visible and Influential is not because you are not good enough or that your songs are not good enough. It is because there's something you are not doing right yet. You don't know the "HOW" yet. You can have a great song and still can't create Influence from it if you don't know HOW I always tell people that Davido, Dbanj, Olamide, Psquare etc may not even pass a Music Reality Show audition. But this are the guys making all t...

SCHOOL OF MUSIC:: MINISTRY INFLUENCE. I was thinking of the best heading that will capture clearly what I want to share on this post. Some of the titles that came to mind include, "Choose Your Ministry League", "The Choice is Yours", "Ministry vs Influence" but I finally settled for "Ministry Influence". If you read those heading carefully, you would already have gotten the message in this post. In the pictures below is TESTIMONY a BLW Gospel music sensation ministering Live at the Ovation Christmas Carol yesterday in Lagos. He minister his 2019 hit song; JESUS and POVERTY DON LEAVE ME. Dr Tim Godfery also ministered at this event too and I was almost crying watching these two at this event. Now why is this a big deal? Ovation Christmas Carol is a Highly Secular Event, and these two Gospel artistes brought Heaven there and glorified Jesus. When Testimony was ministering the song JESUS, I saw the entire audience worshipping, some lifting up ...