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| Mike Nliam |
Few months after dazzling music buffs with his single entitled Loving You, top soundtrack composer-cum-filmmaker, Mike Nliam is again set to thrill lovers of good music with the recent release of another single entitled Nwantinti.
In a recent chat with JEMEDIA REPORTS, the multifaceted Imo State-born entertainer revealed why he veered into music, abandoning the course he spent many years studying. “I knew I had love for music right from when I was in the secondary school; that was when I started learning how to write songs. Then I had a jotter where I wrote down songs and that was how I was able to learn the structure of songs, how to compose and how to write lyrics with rhymes,” he disclosed.
On why he didn’t study music, Nliam stated thus: “The background where I came from is not the type you would tell your parents that you want to study music. At that time, music was seen as a profession for the unserious minded ones. I really had a battle between going for my passion (music) and academics. My people felt music was for the unserious people. Though they enjoyed other people’s music but they couldn’t imagine their own son being in that field because they saw musicians as smokers, and drunkards. There was a lot of clash, though I finally studied something else, but I still made up my mind on doing music. I studied Agricultural Economics at the University of Ilorin. That is why I have always attributed my breakthrough to the gift God deposited in me”
He further described his kind of music: “I listen to all kinds of music and I can sing to any beat. I don’t have any particular kind of music because music is so dynamic. In music, the trend changes and one must learn to grow with the trend. I can do all kinds of music,” he boasted.
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| Nliam with former president, Olusegun Obasanjo |
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| Nliam |
