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Evangelist Tolulope shares with our correspondent the inspiration behind his song.
CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF?
My names are Olusoga Tolulope Olufemi. I was born into the Family of late Pa. Olusoga Alfred on the 11th of June 1979, at bariga Lagos State. I hail from Imodi ijasi in odogbolu local government, ijebu ode. My dad was a driver by profession, and my mum Mrs. Folake Olusoga, is a fashion designer.
In my early days , I went to St. Michael primary School Apata Ibadan, then proceeded to Apata Community Grammar School Ibadan. After secondary education, I proceeded to yabatech, where I studied Fine and Applied Arts.
Currently, I am happily married to Mrs. Oluwabunmi Olusoga and we are blessed with 4 kids.
WHAT WAS GROWING UP LIKE FOR YOU?
Growing up was tough for me, especially because of my parents separation. After the separation I was left to live with my dad who later remarried . Life was hell back then, but God did not leave me uncared for. My step mom will send me on tedious errands, and I also sold some goods by hawking for her , in all-weather condition. To be sincere, I can not tell it all, a divorce is not the best idea to a failing marriage, it will definitely affect the children, but with the grace of God I went through all of it and he has kept me to become his vessel unto honour.
WHAT DID YOU DO BEFORE MUSIC AND WHAT YOU DO ASIDES MUSIC ?
I am a fine artist and I run a printing press.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO BECOME A FINE ARTIST?
I have always had passion for it since my childhood days. I learnt it when I was in secondary School, from JSS 2 till SS3, I used it as a part time job after closing hour. So when I finished secondary School in 1999, I also graduated from my master before I furthered to the Polytechnic.
WHAT WERE THE CHALLENGES YOU OVERCAME TO BECOME WHO YOU ARE TODAY?
Like I said before life has not been easy, I passed through a lot of challenges. I had an accident, lost dad, lost my precious first son, hmmm, life is a teacher indeed, the more you live the more you learn, even it’s written in the Bible that in this life we shall face a lot of tribulations but we should be of good cheer because Christ has overcome the world.
WHAT IS ZAZZU KEH’ AND WHAT IS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE SONG?
Zazzu keh’ is a revelation song, my producer and I composed it to correct some flops in our society.
When I saw the rate of immorality, crime, ritualism, rape, killings etc, has daily been increasing especially in the midst of our youths, as a result of the bad company they keep, the wrong contents in Songs and Movies they watch and listen to.
Things have really fallen apart in our society, it is a collective work which we all join our hands together to correct by prayer and producing good lyrics of songs like this that will guide them in the right manner. Government and religious bodies as a whole can not do it alone, it’s everyone’s duty to fix our society. So The inspiration behind the song is the urge to turn negative vibes to positive, to the glory of God.
WHO IS YOUR PRODUCER?
Ojo Busuyi Jobus is my producer.
WHAT MESSAGE IS YOUR SONG SENDING TO THE SOCIETY AND WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM THEM (SOCIETY)?
The message my song is sending to the society is to amend our ways of evil and the daily slangs we listen to and alter out, they have lots to do with our minds and lives. Forget religion, all men should accept Christ as their personal saviour because he is the only way to the eternity and therefore bearing good fruits as well as becoming a the light to the world.
DO YOU IN ANY WAY , EXPECT COPYRIGHT ALLEGATIONS FROM PORTABLE, CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT THE SONG ZAZOO WAS ORIGINALLY PERFORMED BY HIM?
No I do not expect any copyright allegations, from portable. Of course zazoo zeh was originally performed by him. But I composed mine in a gospel version, I also created my own beat, and it is also different from his beat, meanwhile I do not condemn Zazoo, I am not God but I am not comfortable with the lyrics in the song, it is provocative, for instance telling people to be wicked, I like portable as a man with his hustling spirit but what I did with my song is to compose good lyrics to flush and dilute the provocative lines of the song in the mind of our growing children, I don’t have any issue with Portable, we are from the same Ogun State. I love portable he is a glorious and blessed child from God, no matter what people may say about him, he is blessed already. May God bless him more and I want to plead that he should please mind his lyrics not to corrupt the mind of our young ones. God bless zazzu keh gospel too.
The caption ‘Zazoo Zeh’ means something that spread, things that’s expand, things that goes viral without any obstacles, I want ‘Zazzu Keh’ to go viral also even with a gospel version.