Nigerian indigenous singer, Alexander Abolore Adegbola Akande, popularly known as 9ice, has said that contrary to popular opinion, he never promised fans to win a Grammy award for them.
In 2008, 9ice released the single Gongo Aso, which gaining popularity and even got hadd performing at the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Tribute concert in London, United Kingdom in June 2008.
He went on to win the Best Hip Hop Artist of the Year at the MTV Africa Music Awards. In his latest interview, he said, “People are getting it wrong. I didn’t promise anyone a Grammy award; I promised myself.
I promised myself a lot of things. I promised myself a Music of Black Origin award and I got it.
I promised myself to be one of the most reckoned with artistes 4and I’ve achieved that.
The Grammy award has been one of my targets as well. There is a Yoruba adage that says, ‘Ba o ku, ise o tan’ which literally means, ‘If there is life, anything can still happen’.
I’m still doing music and who says I cannot get it (Grammy award) tomorrow? I still have that belief and I know God will do it for me.”
