By KEHINDE AJOSE

Gloria Ibru has over the years been known to do live music  as the leader of ‘Gnotes band’. The versatile musician who is also the  daughter of billionaire businessman, Olorogun Michael Ibru is set to drop her debut album and reveals exclusively to Showtime what she thinks about the music of this generation

In her words:”My album is  done completely live and   I am hoping it will encourage young musicians to do live music. I do not  consider you going into a studio and putting a beat out  in 15 minutes as music,  that in  my opinion is not music, that is computer .

I am  hoping that my album will influence young people to  start  doing music the way music is suppose to be done which is proper analogue style. One problem I have with the music of this generation is lyrics.

The lyrics that are being churned out   now is either extremely   dirty  or nothing. There is no content in our music. Music to me is supposed to carry a message. Music is the strongest voice in life. Music is the strongest message carrier.

What messages are we as Nigerian artistes sending out? Listen to  the lyrics  of Sunny Okosun, Ebenezer Obey and other old generation musicians.

What messages are the new age Nigerian artistes sending out? As  far as I am concerned its absolutely nothing. We need to go back to our drawing board “she counsels.