As everyone knows the modern Nigerian singer is a hit-making machine. Hit making is no crime but at some point it becomes difficult to tell songs apart.
It is perhaps counter-intuitive that it is mostly in the non-obvious hit song that an artist's personality gets a chance to show. If the gods smile, the same song may be an outright hit. A few examples: Wizkid's 'Ojuelegba', Reminisce's 'Kako bi Chicken', even Yemi Alade's 'Johnny'. It is one reason the album is important:. Within an album, an artist can have the obvious hit; she can also demonstrate a identity.
With Reekado Banks, member of the group Mavins and purveyor of the hit songs 'Oluwa Ni' and 'Katapot' and 'Standard', the identity part of his pop stardom has been elusive. All that can be said be certainty is that he's Don Jazzy's protegee. But no true artist wants to be described using another person's name. Even Don Jazzy doesn't
