King Sunny Ade’s manager, Clement
Ige, is unhappy over the refusal of Small Doctor and Davido to take
permission from KSA before they used his lyrics to create songs.
Speaking at Goldberg’s Ariya Repete
Roundtable discourse in Abeokuta. Ige, who has worked with KSA for 40
years, identified certain things the younger artistes were doing
wrong.
He stated, “They use English language
to speak Yoruba. Like the young man who sang ‘makole marale.’ How
do you build house before buying a land?” he asked.
Adding, he said, “Many of them don’t
give credit to the original composer of the song they adopt. They
just sing it without seeking permission. That’s a copyright
infringement. It’s not done in developed societies.
“Till today, Small Doctor didn’t
get our permission before and after singing ‘ijó tí m’ojó
l’àná, tí wọn n’pariwo, oni nkọ, ola nkọ.’ And many of
them are guilty of this. The Davido that used Sunny’s lyrics in his
song didn’t even get it right and that’s because he didn’t ask
for permission. If he did, we would have corrected him. What is
‘Kuluso ewe, agbagba ewe…?’ The line is actually ‘Seleru
agbo, agbara agbo’. I know because I co-wrote the song!”
No comments:
Post a Comment