Dancehall singer, Onyido Nkemjika better known as Ketchup, has explained why nothing has been heard of him in quite a long time. He attributed it to an accident he had some time ago, his father’s death and other factors. Singer Ketchup reveals how the music industry.
Recall that there was panic in the camp of the Nigerian dancehall act as news spread that he was in a coma in far away Dubai. Ketchup had gone to Dubai to shoot music videos as well as to celebrate his birthday, which he did on Sunday, May 1, 2016 aboard a yacht.
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Singer Ketchup reveals how the music industry
News reached Nigeria on Tuesday, May 3, that Ketchup fell off a jet ski while out with friends on Monday and immediately lost consciousness. He however regained consciousness after 20 hours and since then, his silence in the music industry had been a mystery to everyone.
But he recently spoke with the Punch during which he explained that the Nigerian music industry, the loss of his dad, family commitments and medical surgery have all had a negative effect on his music career.
Ketchup said, “When I dropped ‘Show me your rozay’, it was like a national anthem in Nigeria at that time. There are a lot of things that you can’t explain to everybody; when I dropped Show me your rozay I lost my dad; I’m from an Igbo family and I’m the first child and I had to go through surgery on my right leg.
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“The doctor was like if I don’t do this surgery I won’t dance again ever, and dancing is my life.
“I was a little drawn back at the time because ‘Show me your rozay’ was a little faster than me at that time; I had to attend to family and my health at the same time, I wasn’t really out there as I should have been. That’s why sometimes I like to introduce myself when I meet people, so that’s one of the complications I think affected me as an artiste.
“The industry also ran me down a lot of times when I was trying to push my music and nobody knew what I actually looked like, some people thought I was Jamaican because my music was out there but you wouldn’t know it’s me”, he lamented.
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