How do you expect the Whiteman to play high life or Ekassa music, when he doesn’t even know the root? Can he tell you where to begin with the first note, no? They learn from us and of course it’s very natural. We keep improving with their own and other genre in the world but they can’t play ours.

…the industry is full of people who are ready to sell you for any thing. That’s not right and that’s why I think that we have to put our act in order

He thought I was a prostitute. According to him, he didn’t know we were shooting. When he saw me and what I was putting on, he was discouraged, but he told his friend, ‘Ah! Look at this fine girl, I’m going to bring her out of this life style and marry her. He thought I was a call girl.

When it happened, I went abroad and I thought people knew. It was after I’d returned that I found out that nobody knew I had an accident. I was getting annoyed because I thought if I was arrested for drugs, they would know. Even when my wife went for the opening of Star Quest with Bola (my PA). I was calling to know if anyone asked after me while in the hospital.

When I arrived from Kaduna in a military uniform and immediately I started singing, people were happy and decided that I wouldn’t go back to the army.

We knew our status before the pregnancies. These ladies were my girlfriends and my relationship with them wasn’t like a one night stand stuff. You mentioned Annie. I have known Annie for a long time. We were already comfortable with each other.

They started creating problems that I even had to go to court to bail the band. And after spending so much money, I knew that the whole thing won’t work. So, I told them to go and form their own band.

My lawyer wrote to him back and forth to terminate the agreement and he responded without saying anything tangible. If my album (Forever in My heart) did not sell, why is he holding unto me to for a second album? I’m not the first person he’s doing this to.

Emma Ogosi may not be a house hold name today, but history will forever remember him as one of the pioneers of country music, a genre of music made popular in Nigeria by Bongos Ikwue. A former Air Force officer who passed out from the Air Force school with the likes of the late Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Ibrahim Alfa, Gentleman Ogosi, as the Asaba, Delta State born ,is better known by friends and relations, has certainly paid his dues in the music industry.

I don’t understand what you mean by taking a toll on me. I know that I couldn’t walk for two years. It was a bad experience for me really. But I think that bad aspect of me is gone.