Flavour

Chinedu Okoli (born 23 November 1983), better known by his stage name Flavour N'abania or simply Flavour, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He began his musical career as a drummer for a local church in Enugu State and has since become one of Africa's most prominent highlife and afrobeats performers.

Quotes

• "I chose Flavour because I bring a different style and taste to the industry, and Nabania means 'tonight', which was given to me because of my single 'Nabania'."

• "Nobody can foresee a hit, you just do your best and hope people will appreciate your work."

• "When you have something to offer and it is destined, you will work with the best in the industry.
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• Things started changing when I started seeing some artistes. When I left the band, I went into the streets. That was when the game became hard. All this time, I was in a good place; the music had procedures and all, but now I was in the streets.
  • [2]
• At that point, I wasn’t thinking about being Flavour or being on the spot. I never thought about all that. My dream was just about playing at events and things like that,
  • [3]
• They saw how dedicated I was and introduced me to a man who owned a music company and trained young boys,” he said.
  • [4]
• “Luckily for me, the day I went there, they were having rehearsals. It was the first time I saw proper music set up. I joined the band and served there for 13 years. I developed more with the band, and I later became the band leader.
  • [5]
• With that spot, I already built fans; everybody was there every weekend. No matter what was going on in Enugu, my spot was always packed.
  • [6]

• So the promoters brought Psquare while I was playing, and immediately Psquare came; the manager just said, ‘Hello, off that thing.
  • [7]
• So I decided to change from a music man to an artiste, and that was the difficult part of it because I thought it was going to be easy. I could play, I could sing, but to create your own sound, where are you going to start from?

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Song lyrics

Like a street musician hustling, I went to different joints to play. I could sing so many songs; I had like 5,000 songs I could sing and play to entertain people.

“We play from 8pm until 3am, but then I see these artist3s; they play for like 30 minutes, and everybody is happy, clapping for them and hailing them. And I’m wondering, ‘what is going on? Are we not same artistes?'

Most High (2017)

God, you are the most high
Hallowed be thy name Lord, you are the most high
Hallowed be thy name God, you are the most high
Hallowed be thy name.

Ololufe (2014)

Ife, ife, ife, You are the apple of my eyes.
Ife, ife, ife (Oh, no) I'm gonna love you till I die
Ololufe mi, jowo I'm thinking about that day
It will be just you and I