The story of Chris Okotie, the wonder boy of Nigerian music
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- čas přidán 3. 05. 2024
- One name that will remain indelible in the history of Nigerian music is Chris Okotie, the man whose arrival in the music scene changed the music orientation from the band dominated Afrofunk to solo artistes dominated Pop Music scene. As a Law student at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Chris Okotie was highly appreciated across Nigeria as he changed the mindset of people who regarded music as a profession for dropouts.
Chris Okotie had a short stay in the Nigerian music scene realising four quick albums for Haruna Ishola's Phonodisck in 1981 before moving to EMI for another two albums in 1981 and 1982. 1984 Okotie became a born-again Christian and started as a founder and Pastor of the Household of God Church. He is also the leader and former Presidential candidate of the Fresh Democratic Party of Nigeria. - Hudba
Okorie is one of the most talented musicians in the world. Believe it or not.
Chris Okotie remains one of the most impactful artiste ever in Nigeria.
Lemmy Otu Jackson the BLO keyboardist was also an important member of the production team for Chris Okotie 's albums. Lemmy Jackson later became the biggest producer in Nigeria in the mid 80s to early 90s.
U missed the part where Chris travelled to USA got married to tyna ...just after UNN
Thanks for your comment. I know the story. But on this channel I try as much as possible to keep away the private lives of the artistes. The focus is on their creativity, perfomances, and discography.
Ur story is not complete sir
I do appreciate your observations. But we are trying to create a catalogue of music, artistic impact and creativity in a mini-doc story format. It is still a very rough time at the back end here. We hope to improve as we go along.
You revealed nothing but the same peripheral stories that are already known about Chris Okotie, I clicked on the video hoping for an earth-shattering detailed life of Mr. Okotie. Your work is disappointing on many grounds. First, you failed to pronounce his last name properly throughout your narration -- his name is Oko-ti-e (the "e" is sounded out as "eh"), not Okoti, as you steadily pronounced it. Second, your exaggerations made your story incredible. It is not true that the history of Nigerian music will be incomplete without a mentioning of Chris Okotie's name; it is also not true that he was one of the best song writers in Nigeria. I was a young die-hard fan of Chris Okotie's in the 1980s, I cassette tape owned and memorized every song of his. Other than the "I Need Someone" album, no other album or song of his was spectacular -- they were mostly childish, mediocre, and somewhat vulgar -- he was writing and singing the nursery rhyme of "Goodbye Teacher" in his mid to late 20s; the tawdry tunes of "Show Me Your Backside", "Fine Mama", "I Like You", etc. sullied whatever innocence or purity he had cultivated through his first album -- "I Need Someone".
Chis Okotie the musician was like a shooting star; he splashed onto the Nigerian music scene, animated/tantalized the audience, and dissipated quickly, without sustaining the animation that its presence roused. Okotie found solace in "born-again-ism" once his efforts at replicating the success of his first album was unattainable -- something distracted him from making good music (hopefully not drugs) and he bailed out by finding Jesus. His contribution to the Nigerian music scene was superficial -- its effervescence followed the wind, instead of rolling into history. Yes, he is a natural born entertainer, that is why he is flourishing in prosperity Christendom where entertainment and con artistry reign supreme.
Thank you for watching the video and your comments. If I didn't make the video, there will be no room for comments and very soon most of our pre - internet artstes will be lost in history. There is nothing to shatter the earth with because we are not delving into anything so unknown about our stars of the past. The main purpose of the channel is to keep their creative outputs, discography, and achievements in one place online and not to dig into anything that may bother beyond their art and creativity whether they sounded good or not, which in most cases are subjective. Again it is not everyone that knows so much about these artistes, and they do appreciate the information they get.Thirdly, the channel is not a music critic channel but for sharing nostalgia and documenting music history in an easy to listen and watch format all compressed into a 10-12 minute frame. I don't have the rights to paint any artistes song as bad even when I don't like the songs.
All the same we respect your opinion as they remain yours.
@@musicinmyearstv : Your candor is noted. Criticisms were aimed at aiding you in bettering your next project. Consumers have a say on whether song XYZ is good or not, in the same sense that they can say “I Need Someone” is an excellent song.
Good luck in your project, I trust that we will all join your journey once the project gets deemed devoid of exaggerations, mythologizing, and half truths’ disseminating - superlative idolizing attracts corrective criticism. This is not personal or a discouraging of your pursuit- be objective, that’s all.
@@Zaramoku Sir, thank you, Our presentation reflects how the fans, the public and the media portrayed the artistes at the time they reigned and not on hindsight and retrospective thinking because we are not in a position to gauge such parameters. We are objective to that extent. For instance, you have told us that you were a die-hard fan of Chris Okotie, we cannot come up with anything that contradicts your feelings when you were memorising his songs in 1982. Even your retrospective thinking does not invalidate that feeling. We cannot also come against the Nigerian entertainment media that anointed him as the 'wonder boy' of Nigerian music in the 80s If he had nothing to offer, I don't think they would have eulogised him as such. I was in Class 3 when 'I need someone' was released. When Chris came to perform in a club called Namoba Night Club in the town where I studied, I could feel the frenzy even as a child.
How do I wake up today and invalidate such an atmosphere because we think his songs sounded like nursery rhymes. That would be an unfair thing to do.
@@musicinmyearstv : Great that you responded further, it prompts me to make this clarification. Chris Okotie of 1980 to 1984 was what you described- I even admitted so by comparing his musical breakthrough to a shooting star. My disagreement is with your dressing him in borrowed robes - one whose name, if omitted, would render Nigeria’s history of music incomplete, and as one of the best song writers in Nigeria. Were he any or both of this, then Nigeria would be a nonentity musically.
Okotie’s presence on Nigeria’s music arena was brief (relative to musicians’ durability and volume of work) and he did not sustain the flashes of brilliance that he had displayed through his first album. This is a historical fact, therefore history cannot accord him the space wherein you placed him musically.
The above is my only disagreement with your overall characterization of him as a musician. I wish that you were correct because I was a fan of his, but as an old man with expertise on most things in life now, including in music, my bias for him has to take the backseat whenever the facts of history are at play. When I lived in Nigeria, over three decades ago, I used to exercise the Nigerian trait of surrendering to sentiments on certain matters; we rarely do so in the US over matters of history.
I thank you too.
Because you dont agree that Okotie is one of Nigeria's greatest artist does not mean you are correct.He was right in saying the history of Nigerian music will not be complete without Okotie's name mentioned.
I need someone was one of the greatest pop albums ever released in Nigeria.The only one that can be compared with it is Ofege's debut.
Everybody was singing i need someone and almost every household had that album.
It also led to so many artists being inspired and following his footsteps.