Veteran Nigerian singer, D’banj restarts his music career as he humbly refers to himself as “a new cat” (a term used to describe an up-and-coming artist). The 43-year-old singer noted that even after 20 years within the enterprise, he still feels as if he’s only beginning and that the music business has changed over time.
D’banj mentioned in a recent interview with HipTV that he might be collaborating with a couple of up-and-coming musicians on his next album, “Entertainer,” which he claimed was a follow-up to his highly regarded 2008 album, “The Entertainer.”
He mentioned …
“I’m not the first [Nigerian artist] to have done an international collaboration. We were just the first to have done it the way we did it. Often, once you need to do a collaboration with a global artist, it appeared earlier than ours, like they had been doing you a favour. However with the type of grace that God gave us and the type of group that we had, we had been able to deliver one of the biggest [‘Mr Endowed’].
“I believe that actually gave hope and visibility to the kids [new artists] to know that they’ll do it. So, I feel like a really proud father if I may say. That’s why I’m a cat once more [up-and-coming artist]. Now, I need to feature not even international artists however local artists. I need to feature Ayra Starr, Rema, Ruger and Don Jazzy. Collaboration is the new competition.”
