Nigerian Artistes Don't Know The Meaning Of Live Performance

My attention as been drawn to the popular trend of Nigerian singers.

We keep going on and on about having the biggest and most active music industry in africa and one of the largest in the world.The music industry is said to be worth $700m.While this may be true,there is something our performers are yet to master which in comparison to other developed music industries is highly frowned upon.

This is the issue of Live Performance.With a large music sector like ours here in Nigeria with a large number of youths who pay attention to this sector it is not encouraging that our youths don't get the real value of music from the artiste they love too much.

Live performance is supposed to be the performance of a song to a live audience on a stage at a concert/show/ceremony where a singer sings a song to a live band playing instrumentals and back up singers as the case may be.

Live performance is not playing the recorded version of the artiste song while the singer sings to it as his original song is played in the background.
This is Lip-Synchronization.You're mouthing words to an already recorded song without a live band playing instrumentals as your voice takes the lead.

I'm very sure you all would agree with me that our Nigerian artiste only lip-sync their songs and earn huge amounts of money for the shows while we stand and listen to them giving us half-baked performances.

If we're to make a comparison,you'll agree with me that the likes of Beyonce,Rihanna,Lady Gaga,Justin Bierbier and the dead Whitney Houston had at one point puked on stage from anxiety and over-preparation for a live performance cause they know their die-hard fans deserves a real performance and they must enjoy what they came for.American artiste are known to practice with their bands for tours of which the lead singer sings the song as if its a new song with the instrumentals to back up the vocals.

Do we remember the Obama Second Term Inaugauration where the Popular Music goddess Beyonce was criticised for lip-syncing her performance.The 3minute performance was expected to be given the best as she was expected to be best prepared for it.

In Conclusion:This is to tell Nigerian Musicians to learn the culture of Live Performance,they should practice with their bands and give the audience mind-blowing performances and stop mouthing to their songs.I believe a lot of youtube videos of foreign artiste are available at their disposal to help them learn just in case they don't get how.

I hope they get this message or somehow it is related to them and we should expect a change from them.

Thank you.

Hezron Lorraine.