Multiple award-winning gospel musician, Sonnie Badu on ‘Hanging out With KOD’ over the weekend disclosed that he started commercial music at the age of 25 when he was an estate agent, and at a time that things really turned sour for him. He added that his family is into music (his grandfather and dad) doing music himself didn’t come as a surprise.
Sonnie, whose hit songs include Baba, Covenant Keeping God and Wonder God became the first African artist to stage a performance at the Wembley Stadium, where he just took thousands of patrons by storm with his electrifying performances.
On his thought on secular music, Sonnie said, ”Love songs are good, in Heaven there are Angels of love and it all rest on the lyrical content of the song. You can’t be having an intimate time with your spouse and just be playing gospel songs. There is absolutely nothing wrong with secular songs, it all depends on the lyrical content of it.”
He advised that if a musician wants to breakthrough into the international stage, it is very important to seek mentorship and attach oneself to the older generations and learn more stuffs from them. He expressed his profound gratitude to Musician, Guitarist, Keyboardist, Engineer and Multi-instrumentalist, Kwame Yeboah for his mentorship and guiding him through and through.
Sonnie also described his wife, Ann-Marie Davis as his best friend, prayerful, beautiful, religious and just all-in-all wife. For now, Sonnie Badu has a radio station, 5 different clothing lines, and a school. He is also an estate developer, and he revealed that he has written books, he produces magazines and he will be opening orphanage homes very soon.”
He ended the interview by advising the upcoming musicians not to deceive themselves that they are stars just because they get likes on social media platforms and that they should really worked hard and seek mentorship. He hastened to add that once someone conceives an idea, that person is capable of achieving it and that one should imagine, perceive and achieve the idea.
Written by, Amekor Shola Evershed
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