7/5/2023 0 Comments Master reboot soundtrack![]() PT: Let’s talk about some of your memorable works, like the one making waves now, ‘Billionaire.’ But sometimes, these editors would start playing the dirge and thereby telling the viewer that the character would soon die. If there is a death scene you don’t play a dirge before the character dies. I recall that the thing used to piss Sammie off a lot because many editors didn’t know much about playing music. But the editor may even play the song before the scene happens. After the scene has happened, you may now solve it. Some people tell the story in music, but that doesn’t happen. Making music for Nollywood is different, and it’s interpretative, and you are almost interpreting the story. It is different from making music for Hollywood or Bollywood. There is a uniqueness in making music in the Nollywood industry. They give you a hand, and you make music that would interpret it. You are given the script most time, and you are asked to come up with music. Sammie had become a significant player in soundtrack production long before I came. ![]() Stanley Okorie: When Nollywood started, there was no format for anything. PT: What was it like coming up with those concepts? If I had to cough for a living, I would come and cough, and you would pay me. I was singing backup, and I was also printing, and I was practically doing anything that would bring money. At the same time, I was also doing some freelance jingle productions for so many people. Stanley Okorie: Yes, I was making soundtracks, I was working in an advert agency, and I was working at Sonny Irabor’s Ruyi Communications. PT: Were you making soundtracks alongside your gospel music career? We trashed it, so We noticed that he often got into several things, so I got into soundtracking. This was an argument among friends, but I liked working with Sammie. I said okay if I’m going to sing for you, you would have to find me something. We agreed, but then on another occasion, Sammie was now saying he would play for me, but I would write for him and sing for him. So I said, okay, Sammie, you know what would happen I would write for you, and you would play for me. PT: Tell us more about your relationship with Sammie. I was given a bottle of Sprite as payment for my first movie soundtrack. ![]() Later, he started doing his own thing, and I started doing my own thing. As his friend, sometimes there would be complete and partial payments, but I didn’t bother. Sammie had done a lot of soundtracks, and I was writing and producing. Stanley Okorie: I think it was ‘Compromise’. PT: Can you recall your first movie soundtrack? I concentrated more on writing for Sammie, who produced my first soundtrack. Sometimes we would come to a place together, and he would make music and ask me to put words. Sammie played a significant role in my music career. We lost contact, but we now re-established contact when I came back. We were pretty close until some years after I left Nigeria for Canada. I wouldn’t say I liked live bands, but he and I would go to the motherland and do backup. ![]() Stanley Okorie: I wouldn’t say I like live music. PT: Between live music and studio recordings, which do you prefer? When I started working on my first album, the ‘Jesus I Love You’ records, Sammie was still doing the soundtrack. We did some jobs which I liked then in the South. His production skills were just as good as my writing skills. Sammie was a fantastic keyboardist and producer. Stanley Okorie: Yes, it was Klint studios mainly, then there was this guy called Johnson Davidson of Midtown and a lot of people.
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