Rocks Turkey, Germany, France Others
Having carved a niche for himself in the country’s entertainment
industry, the king of street music Olamide seems to be focusing more on
promoting his brand of music abroad. The rapper, who is adept at
releasing hit songs flawlessly, recently took his brand of indigenous
music to many cities of the European continent.
Powered by Alex Ozone of O3 Media, the singer, who dropped Science
Student to the admiration of many, stepped into the city of Istanbul for
the Culture Tour and wowed the audience in Turkey with some of his hits
such as Wo, Science Student, Shakitibobo and others.
In fact, the response of the fans, in the wake of Europeans, Asians
and Africans alike, were rapturous, as Olamide dropped his latest
song, Omo Ologo, meaning the Glorious Child, while on the tour. He was
even stunned at the massive turn out at Vienna and in the three Italian
cities of Brescia, Venice and Palermo. These cities normally get a big
turnout only for classical music and musicians that have had a global
appeal.
Indeed Olamide
somehow rewrote history in the cities of Europe where he performed. “I
never felt this much love outside Nigeria. It was an astounding success;
thanks to my team and all Nigerians in the Diaspora, despite the
unstable and inclement weather condition. They all came out in their
droves to identify with me and showed me with love. Some of them even
sang my lyrics, word for word and danced to my music,” excited Olamide
said.
Other cities like Manheim in Germany and Paris received the star and
versatile music artiste with all candour. Aside the Barcelona Culture
music tour, where Olamide couldn’t perform, owing to the promoter’s
shoddy preparation, The Culture Tour package by Alex Ozone, was a huge
success and there are still more cities to visit before he returns to
the country.
Though not many indigenous hip-hop artistes can pull a crowd in
Europe and America, Olamide is a game changer because he did the
contrary even in the winter season when turnout dawdles, Alex said, “In
the beginning, people didn’t believe Olamide’s Culture tour will pull a
crowd because of his indigenous style of music. A lot of people did not
believe the tour would be a success, but thanks to God. Olamide has
opened a major door for other indigenous artistes to tours in European
countries like Phyno, 9ice, Reminisce, and others because they couldn’t
tour cities like these before outside Nigeria. Quote me: This is the
first time an African artiste is performing in Europe during winter.”
This is a good testimony to what Nigerian wave-making artistes are
making in advanced countries, and Olamide has just added good value to
this testimony against all odds.
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