Marc Wilson is a Nigerian, who was born and brought up in Ajegunle, Apapa area of Lagos state. He is also a German citizen living in Germany.

In this interview he explains his humble beginning, his passion for music and how he achieved his musical dream in Germany where started music as a small boy from a musical parental background. Excerpts:

Tell us about your musical background?

As a small boy from a musical parental background, I was able to embrace music at early age and I attribute the glory of the gift from my mother, who used to be the lead singer of our village community women wing. I think I got something there.

How did you develop dancing talent and where?

I formed a local group, we built our drums with transparent nylon bounded with ropes around a Tin, which served as our drums. We also worked with some traditional instruments we could lay our hands on like ogene group and of course the whistle in the mouth, and shakers, and the empty cans which we cut open from both ends, while using nylon to cover at one end. All these happened in the middle of 70’s and the 80’s. This musical inspiration continued as I entered secondary school.

Did you face challenges while growing up as you tried to develop yourself?

When I was in class two or three thereabout, I had a school group which comprised of young boys; Cone, as I used to call him, Johnson whom we called Galaxy, Henry and Nsa, we called him Curtis N. who later became our best school dancer. You can call him Jeffrey Daniels of Nigeria back then.

We produced some songs which we offered to labels like EMI, BMG ARIOLA, TABANSI RECORDS, POLYDOR and POLIGRAM but we were rejected. However at Polygram I met Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce, the owner of Silverbird who said to me, “I am sorry, your music is too western, try to do something like Felix Liberty, Dizzy K. Your music won’t have a chance here”. I was happy to have met him and from that day, I stopped making music in Nigeria and I took it abroad as Ben Murray- Bruce adviced.

In 1989 after my education as business administrator in NIESA, I left for Germany where the second phase of my humble beginning in my musical journey started.

What stood you out in your music career?

In my early years in Germany, I met a young man who was a student then and speaks English fluently, but from a very rich family in Hamburg. His name was Christian Beitz, he offered me his studio where I got my first demo but things changed shortly after this time. I got married, had a baby.

Between 1993 and 1994 I met Frank Farian, who has produced global famous star groups like Bunny M, Milli Vanilli and many more.

I started working on my first song, titled, “Jack the City Boy” which featured the voice of the late Melanie Thonton through which a 10-year contract with Frank Farian was realised. Afterwards, she came out with her first single which became number one in German Chart in a very short time under the project name, ” LaBouch” .

Honestly speaking, I can’t remember any occasion during my growing up that I felt any challenges that could point to deterring my development direction. I had liberal parents who did not stand in our ways on self development, instead they supported. Moreover, I partially grew up in Germany as I went there at a very young age.

What stands me out in my music career is my stage show. I love the people and my audience to be entertained if they come to watch my show, I love leaving them in amazement.

How did you get to Germany?

My going to Germany was a basket full of case. My dad did not want me to travel out of Nigeria, he wanted me to finish my school in Nigeria. However, my elder brother was then in the USA, and as every other father would think then, he said, “your elder brother is US and I don’t know if I would see him again. So you have to be here with me. But, I saw how most of my friends were travelling out. You know like a trend, everyone wanted to “check out” of the country even though we didn’t know what awaited us there. So like others, I was fixed on leaving the country even before the end of my studies and many times I applied for visa, it was rejected. On one occasion, where I could have gotten the visa to UK., my father stopped it by compelling them to refuse me the visa, that he was not aware and not in support. But somehow I was able to go through other means to obtain the visa but this time around not US or UK but German visa which was much easier then.

I got a soft landing when I came to Germany because I already helped lots of friends obtain German Visa.

Who were your friends as you were building your music career?

Most of my friends during the period of my career building were majorly Italians and few Germans. You know as at that time, we did not have much black people so the only people around you were the whites and most of them showed me love and support.

Tell us about the acceptance of your music in Germany?

My music was widely accepted especially, “Feel My Body” which was a song that sold over 50000 copies and another song, “Taste of Love” which also sold over 250000 in Japan through Manifold records.

A song “Ezumbale” got five stars by the popular music magazine “BRAVO” and received many airplays.

What about your single that is trending across Europe?

“Feel My Body” trended and presently, “Bi Ba Bi Le” the actual single on all digital platforms is trending and is already number eight in the International DJs Chart, and we hope to see it go higher. With the help of my Nigerian people, I think we can achieve that.

What should we be expecting from you in the music industry?

Like I have already told Silverbird Television in an Interview, what should be expected of me would be far more better than what I have done previously. In the past, I worked under the directives of the record labels because you are bound to follow the status quo and going against it deprives you of everything, but now I am a free man, much experienced.

You should be expecting Marc Wilson with different styles of music that carries originality that will be defying places and cases.