Olomi hit singer, Tosin Martins is coming out after years of
inaction in the music industry. The singer in a candid interview with
Punch’s Saturday Beats revealed that the reason why he was AWOL
was because he realized other music evolved and it just stopped being
about that kind of sound.
He said, “I went quiet after releasing ‘Olomi’ because other music
evolved and it just stopped being about that kind of sound. There is a
Naija pop sound that is dominant and radio gives them a priority. I am
not that kind of artiste. I can collaborate with them and bring that
kind of sound into my genre but the reality is that it is not my kind of
sound. You have to be true to yourself. It is that whole process of
being true to yourself and remaining relevant that caused my silence in
the industry.”
The artiste also put down the misconception about him being a gospel
singer. he said he is an inspirational singer not a gospel singer.
He further highlighted what he loved about collaborating with ‘secular’ artistes.
He explained,”What I appreciate from secular artistes is friendship
and relationship and not what they stand for. There are some subjects
that are bigger than a particular faith. Love impacts everyone
irrespective of their faith. You cannot say that Tiwa Savage is not
capable of love, so I would feature her because she loves; she has had
her own travails and challenges. It is the same thing with M.I and
anyone else as far as I know that we click on the subject. If we have to
sing for a cause like HIV/AIDS, for instance, I would definitely
collaborate with the secular artistes. For instance, we just did a song
for the awareness of drug abuse and I collaborated with secular
artistes.”
Tosin Martins had staged a concert on Valentine’s day after 5 years
to continue in his work. He also cited the reason behind he not putting
up a concert saying,”Honestly, I cannot tell you why I have not staged a
concert in five years but I have been quite busy with traveling and
touring. It is also quite expensive to put concerts together. I could
have done something bigger looking at my level but I put this together
and made it quite small because I had not staged a concert in a long
time.”
Ebenezer Obey and he spoke about the experience. He called it a special
moment because Obey had honored him with his presence especially to his
mum who was a big fan of Ebenezer Obey.