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I was inspired by Africans’ philosophy — Sambar

I was inspired by Africans’ philosophy — Sambar

By Kayode Afolabi
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Popular Afrocentric Musician in Ondo State, Adekunle Samuel, popularly known as Sambar has attributed his source of inspiration to God.

The artiste who disclosed this while speaking with Friday Extravaganza,  explained that his music potential has been manifesting right from his childhood.

“I engage in poetry, like ewi, ijala, Orin ode, Tara and I also do all the Yoruba poetry in chanting and also derive pleasure in playing musical instruments, thereby leading to playing virtually all the musical instruments I come across.

“I played percussion in church while in the choir and later proceeded to learn keyboard and string instruments too. I played almost all the instruments in the church excluding the elementary ones.

“I have been engaging in all kind of music that center around African culture which is not only restricted or just within West Africa alone. We exhibit virtually every culture of Africa.”

“We have visited the East and South Africa and also make use of their culture too, as a matter of fact, our latest single is a poetry song in form of theology for African, since that is the pride of Africa and we did it in chorale culture fused with Acapella of the South Africans, Zimbabwe and Botswana.”

“Aside music, I am into cinematography, I direct and  edit films, but sometimes I engage in photography,  he stated.”

He noted that he started music professionally in 2007 when he wrote a song titled”Ise Ori” which was actually his first single which was released in 2007, and proceeded to produce his maiden album compilation which came out on October 31, 2011 titled ” Rawaniya.”

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“So subsequently, God has helped me to produce a good album that people are really subscribing to and are appreciating as well.”

The Oka Akoko born crooner said he received a lot of testimonies concerning his music, a lot of encouragement from people that really love his music, saying he was encouraged by those remarks and  still hoping for more breakthroughs.

Sambar, a graduate of Sociology from Adekunle Ajasin University, noted that he was inspired by his African environment, way of life and philosophy.

“Though every culture has its own ugly side, but there are a lot of good path in our culture.

He identified the issue of stigmatization and financial problem as the major challenges he faced.

“View of people on African culture are not encouraging, because they erroneously mix African culture with idolatry.

“Most of our projects and exhibitions that will bless people cannot materialize due to financial instability.”

He urged young musicians not to venture into music just to make money, having car, but let the content have positive impact to the society.

“The best achievement a musician can have is for your message to be well established.”

“Play quality music that have good message to your children,” he admonished parents.

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