The Music Industry Doesn’t Acknowledge Producers – K-solo Cries Out

One of Nigeria’s early music producers, K-

Solo is not happy about the way musicians

and the music industry as a whole are

treating music producers especially the

young ones. He says producers are the ones

who produce the hits on the streets, but only

artistes gain from it.

They are the ones with big cars and houses

and get endorsement deals from songs

jointly made by two parties, leaving the

other man- the producer broke. K-Solo said

this is a chat with Showtime… Hear him;

“Music producers don’t get their due

recognition. It’s beyond producing a song. I

started the voice signature concept for the

songs I produced before every other

producer started it.

Aside that, we don’t get any other

recognition. Check out many artistes in

Nigeria, most of them have big houses and

drive good cars, but these young music

producers have nothing. Most of them don’t

even have a car. They have produced major

hit songs that have built houses for some of

these artistes. The biggest accolade you get

as a music producer is accompanying a

popular artiste to an event. That is the end

of it. Continue…

In the USA, music producers live like

celebrities. How many music producers have

gotten an endorsement deal aside from

Cobhams and Don Jazzy? We cannot develop

the music industry that way. OJB produced

African Queen and he died without an

endorsement deal. There are only a few of

us who have other businesses outside of

music”, he said.