Asu Ekiye Calls Out Musicians Who Sang Others’ Song At The Experience 14

The Bayelsa-born award-winning musician Asu Ekiye has called out musicians who were at the recently held annual worshippers’ gathering The Experience but sang other gospel artistes’ songs.
The veteran gospel artiste took to Instagram to blast his colleagues, noting that singing others’ song on such a global platform amounts to fraudulent public appeal syndrome. He added that such a singer lacks originality and professionalism and needs counselling.Asu Akiye Calls Out Musicians Who Sing Others' Song At The Experience 14
Asu Ekiye then went further to thank The Experience’s organisers and visioners for the powerful global showcase of Nigeria’s gospel music culture, noting that he had been there twice and it remains the biggest stage in Africa.
He wrote, “MY TAKE ON SOME GOSPEL ARTISTE AT THE EXPERIENCE 2019 When you are invited to a global platform like The Experience to minister in music and all you can do is to sing other people’s original songs except yours, then I think you are either passing through a fraudulent public apeal syndrom or you lack originality and professionalism
After twenty years of full time music ministry and with at least 4 album projects to your credit , you have problems singing your own songs in big events, then you need canseling? You should be pitied rather than being celebrated. Any gospel musician who has been in ministry for more than ten years and rely on popular songs rather than his own songs to appeal to a crowd is a mediocre brand.
However, I must commend the visioners of the Experience . It is a very powerful global showcase of our gospel music culture. I have been there twice and it remains the biggest stage in Africa. Asu Ekiye
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In another post, he sent out words to the organisers of the event, asking that they encourage creativity and originality by ensuring that no singer mounting the stage should stand there by unauthorised or stolen works.
A WORD TO THE ORGANIZERS OF “THE EXPERIENCE” GOSPEL CONCERT IN NIGERIA.THE best way to promote gospel music in Nigeria is to encourage and enhance the core tenets of creativity and originality. When copyright laws are recklessly infringed upon In the dimension that we witness in the gospel community in Nigeria, we might be at the risk of attracting unwarranted litigation in the near future and also courting unnecessary backlash from avoidable disregard of copyright laws both nationally and internationally.
My counsel to HOTR and the Team at the Experience concert is this: No artiste mounting your stage should stand there emboldened by unathourised or stolen works of copyrighted materials. If for any reason songs are to be used which are outside the purview of the performer , they should secure due permission as is done internationally.
I AM not against the use of other people’s songs which one is inspired to sing in the course of a ministration, I myself do that when am inspired. But the emphais here should be that it must be done moderately and with a sense of responsibility. But to concentrate on the performance of songs for which the artiste are not the original writers or performers will be the height of mediocrity and illegality. Let us begin to encourage sound and proper practices even in Christiandom in Nigeria Asu Ekiye
“, Asu Ekiye wrote.Photos Credit: Getty/Instagram

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