Thursday, June 16, 2011

THE SY SUPER 'MAN': OLUWASEYI FALAYI

Nigeria is home to thousands of musicians from well established to upcoming musicians. Today, hip-hop and rap dominate Nigeria music industry due to the influence of foreign music especially american hip-hop. Even nowadays we see musicians from other genre collaborating with hip-hop artistes to boost their album sales and it is slowly killing our own styles of music.
Despite the domination of hip-hop and rap, we still have courageous talents that are trying their best to bring life back to music as we know it. Talented Fuji, Juju and highlife musicians that we need to get to know. These are the heroes of our music and Ifeooye is proud to chat with one of them recently; Oluwaseyi Falayi, CEO of THE SY SUPER BAND AND HIS MOEDERN ACES is an Ife based musician from efon-alaye. He talked about his music,the challenges musicians like him are facing and his former boss Jimi Solanke.


IfeOoye (IO): can you tell me your full name, your home town and where are you based?

SY: I am falayi oluwaseyi ayodeji aka(mr super) fron efon alaye based in ile ife

IO: what is the name of your band and the type of song you sing?

SY: sy super and his mordern aces. juju ,highlife both old school and mordern

IO: what makes you want to be a musician?

SY: the bible says give and it will come back to you .just to teach, to make people happy any time any day

IO: since what age you realized you want to be a musician?

SY: about 15 years ago but my father plays organ so is like inheritance

IO: do you have any musical background or training?

SY: yeah 4rm my father and my baba agba jimi solanke

IO: when and where is the first time you perform as a lead singer?

SY: was in rodeo relaxation centre in awoyeku ile ife through a boss mr ayeloja manadex

IO: what are the challenges you are facing as musician?

SY: My instrument is part of it, looking at people doing well for real

IO: do you have any objection from your parent when you first started?

SY: that one is a must no parent will like that

IO: how do you come up with the name sy super?

SY: seyi by name and i need to bring in something big . SUPER

IO: being an ile-ife based, do you think things would have better if you are in lagos or Ibadan?

SY: My God is every where

IO: who do you think you can call your hero among the musicians in Nigeria today?

SY: jimi solanke

IO: are you married or single?

SY: married

IO: do you belong to any music organization?

SY: PMAN

IO: when you are not on stage what other things of interest you do?

SY: listening to my play backs 

IO: where do you think you see yourself in the next four years?

SY: higher ground

IO: what advice do you have for upcoming artistes?

SY:  having a better focus and to endure

IO: which soccer club you support in England?

SY: winning team

IO: nokia or blackberry?

SY: nokia

IO: what do you think about www.ifeooye.com ?

SY: yoruba people do say that yiniyini keni lese mi .i believe with this and with a better encouragement we will get something better from a reasonable fellow like dis thanks. The is site is wonderful.

IO: ifeooye is proud to support SY SUPER and for those of you out there that are still looking for that real juju and highlife musician, this is the man for you. thank you MR Seyi for giving us time ti chat with you.

to contact Seyi Falayi, go to his facebook page @ http://www.facebook.com/foluwaseyiayodeji


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