BREAKING NEWS, Entertainment
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BONKWE is the new kid to watch in the music industry. Since Bonkwe of Kashmire Records released his single ‘Na You I Go Marry’ his fortune in the music industry has greatly improved and is set to hit the sky.
He has become a known voice in the streets with his first official single amongst many of his unreleased recorded songs. He’s currently working on a secret follow-up single with a list of artists in Nigeria and South Africa.
Bonkwe began his music career as a little boy singing in his church choir. That was where he fell in love with music and developed interest in becoming a musician. Because he loves singing he tried to compose songs for his choirmaster. He later decided to make it professional when he realised his passion for music was much.
He also went into music because of his boss LA. Kashmire, chief executive officer, of Kashmire Records, because of how much he believed in him and encouraged him to believe in himself.
Bonkwe composes all his songs which fall in the category of Afro Pop. He gets inspirations from his everyday life. He believes his music is a reflection of his life: what he sees every day, his past, and his future, so when composing a song, all he needs do is thinks about his message, and that’s it, he says.
He claims that “Na You I Go Marry” was a song he came up with randomly without inspiration; the melody just came to him one day at his home and he it took him 30 minutes to write it down. He was introduce to T Spice, super sensational producer, who laced him with a dope Afro pop hip life beat for the song.
Bonkwe is not collaborating with any musician and promises to remain this way till he’s released at least two singles. Only then will he come out with a huge collaboration for his beloved fans.
He’s a huge fan of P-Square who inspired him. From childhood he learnt their songs and performed them for his family members. Though, nothing is known about his family background apart from the fact that his parents were skeptical about his music venture at first because he was still studying in the University.
They felt music would affect his studies negatively, but later they changed their perspective when they realised the enthusiasm with which he worked on his music. They accepted that music was his passion and ceased discouraging him especially because it wasn’t affecting his school grades. His father funded his recording and after a studio session they would all listen to the song together.
He is an Insurance graduate from Imo State University. However, all he’s active with now is music despite the challenges in the industry. The challenges he experiences include not getting support from enablers. The reason is because he believes they all think they are doing him a favour and also because everything about music business is expensive; studio sessions; video shoot; quality videos in Nigeria costing millions of naira; promotions funding and logistics.
Bonkwe believes he’s got what it takes to make it big in the industry because of how different he believes he is from the norm in the industry of same song sounds, tune, beats etc.
He is currently single because he wants to remain focused in his music. Though, he seems to have a long-time crush on talented musician Chidinma who he claims is beautiful and one of the most honest female entertainers in the industry today.
— Aug 22, 2016 @ 01:00 GMT
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