2. What is your WHY? And why?
cinema. I cut out images, made a transparent screen over a box, put a lantern behind my images and projected them through the screen and ran commentaries on them. This was still between the age ranges of six and 10.
Around that time, there was a cinema called, “Sinimá ọ̀fẹ́” (free cinema). The free cinema then featured Cowboy and Indian films. We were mainly interested in the action − the running around, the horses, the songs and so on.
I tried, at that age, to create my version of all that was going on. My grandmother didn’t stop me because I felt I was operating within an ambience she appreciated. So all these desires were building up in me without my knowing I was going to end up where I am.
Of course while growing up my parents also had their input, but the main figure in all this was my grandmother. Meanwhile, as a result of my exposure to the live bands, I fell in love, particularly with a musician, Ebenezer Obey. He performed for us at home a couple of times. Fast forward to adulthood. When I finished my first degree program, the only thing I wanted after completing the compulsory one year NYSC program was to join the band of Ebenezer Obey as a backing singer. That was what I wanted to do and my grandmother agreed to take me to Ebenezer Obey.
But two things stopped that. One, I had a job waiting for me at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Abeokuta, which I left for the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) for my