My Mission Is To Bring Back The Essence Of Music - The Professor

To members of the public, the name Chief Fruitful Mekwunye whose stage name as a musician is Professor, might not be a familiarly known as a musician but this does not mean the light skinned stoutly built Delta State born is new to music.

 Professor, a scribe of Performing Musician Association, PMAN has been in music for as long as he has lived. However, he just completed work on his first album that is expected to drop any time soon.

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Speaking about why he took him so long to announce his musical career, Professor said he had to bury his music dream for so long because the was not encouragement and that he was too busy struggling to survive that following his dream was the least he could think of.

 He however believes coming out at this stage of his life aptly depict that a dream is not until you are dead. “Music is inborn, it is a talent and when you have the talent, it is either you actualize it earlier enough or actualize it later. 

In my own case, I was supposed to have actualized mine in my early age but in those days, call musicians hopeless and jobless people and even lazy people.

 You rarely could see talent hunts like we have these days so most of the dreams were buried.”

Making his debut, ‘Fruitful’ has a four track album that was coordinated, contributed to and produced by versatile Juju singer, Yinka Best. The musical effort titled, “Ogo Oluwa” (Glory of God) has tracks ‘Iyawo Mi Gbadura Fun Mi’, a Yoruba highlife aimed at making family units stronger, ‘Bed Of Roses’, a R & B flavor, ‘Africa’, a Calypso soca with Reggae mix done to remind Africans of their identity and Nigeria, a tune tailored to address ills of the country.

Professor further revealed his mission is to return lost glory of music by ensuring he plays songs that are message filled.  He decried how people are forced to dance to songs that have no messages because only few produce good music. 

“My mission which also is the primary objective of music is to produce songs with messages that are also free flowing so that Nigerians and the world can enjoy it,” he concluded.