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| Nelson NseAbasi |
Sometimes, when I flash back at my growing up days, and compare with my today, I laugh, I discover how my past; the activities and the people in it have affected my today, and definitely made up my experience for the future.
My father imbibed in me the love for music with the tunes he played, and helped me to take my own love step further by sending me to The Salvation Army music school, there, I learnt how to play the brass instrument ‘Flugal Horn’, looking up to the likes of David Nathaniel, Godwin Ntuk, and Joe Akpan.
It was interesting, filled with visits to the Calabar Community Center, to the National Musuem and to Bar Beach on Sundays. You can starve me of food, I was happy growing up in Lagos to a music loving father who invested in turn table plates, and played hosts to the likes of Mandators and King Sunny Ade in our humble abode at Palmgrove.
While growing up, I tried my hands on fine art…even though I preferred football, but music still prevailed above them all. At The Salvation Army music school, I read notes, lines and spaces, and with my cousin Nelson Edemeka as the Band Master, I got extra access to the instruments and in less than no time, I rose to become the Band Master for the Junior Band in Church.
I’m not surprised when I find myself doing what I am doing today, I guess my past and the people in it had prepared me for it. Especially my father, like I explained above, and my brother Nelson Sombodi who introduced me to the hip hop culture in the 90s, and taught me how to dub from the radio…lol, my cousin in the music school, who sometimes had to flog me, or is it my reggae loving Uncle- Ekere Nelson whose love for reggae helped me to unravel the words of wisdom in between the base lines of the Jamaican tunes. I thank God for y’all.
From music making, to music managing and music promotions as a publicists, artiste and event manager, today, music is paying me, I contribute meaningfully to making good music with the artiste; I listen with my inner ear, to ensure the best output because Music is in me.
Music is in me.
Nelson NseAbasi
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