Suffering a stroke taught me life lesson –Bongos Ikwue

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Seventy-seven-year-old veteran soulful musician, Bongos Ikwe, talks to JOHN CHARLES about music, life, his recent ailment and other issues Without any warning, you left the music scene for constructi

on business even before you became old, why?

Very little. But I like Elvis Presley, in particular. I know he liked singing a lot of blues and gospel songs. I remember one of his songs that I like so much, where he was talking to God Almighty, saying, ‘But this time Lord, you gave me a mountain.’ At the time I left university, I was ready to leave. I don’t like to criticise things but we have such a false sense of many things.

There is a poet friend who was asked what his best poem was, he brought out a white paper and pointed at it. The interviewer said, ‘I cannot see anything. ‘The poet told the interviewer to look well and the man said he still could not see anything. So, my answer is that my favourite song is the one I have not written yet.I had the ‘Rooftoppers’ when I was in Kaduna. Then, I was playing at Hamdala Rooftop Hotel in Kaduna. So, I called my band the ‘’Rooftoppers’.

So when I flash my mind back, I realise there are so many things that have been lost. I will like to see how I performed when I was much younger in Kaduna so that people can also see it. I may think it was wonderful but if I see it now, I may realise it was probably otherwise and it may help me to think in some directions.

There was a time you said you had about 40 new songs not released, do you still plan to do anything about them?

 

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