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| Singer Saint |
Versatile Musician,
Saint-Realest has come out to clarify his trending annotations on Facebook in
which he is quoted as stressing that he does not do music for awards but for
money.
According to ‘Delilah’
hit-maker, his comment on Zola nation, pertaining to MASO awards did not mean,
in any way, to despise organizers or the awards in their totality.
The Multi-award
winning artist who is missing on the list of awardees this year, disclosed, in
an interview on Wednesday, that he esteems organizers of the awards and is
always obliged for their zealotry in pushing the entertainment industry in
the country.
He said; "Big up
to MASO awards organizers...I'd commented like that on that Facebook page
because of the way they'd presented their post. It was like I do music for
awards or to be praised. NO! I do music for passion and money."
The 'Nsanje' crooner,
real name, Yamikani
Chikwawe who is predominantly a reggae and dance-hall artist started recording
music in 2007 and has worked with Abstract Records, Step Up Records and
Kutchira Entertainment among others.
"As
a human being," he explained. "I've goals every year that I aim to
achieve. So, it doesn't mean that when I'm not awarded any award that
particular year then I've failed. The nomination process is done at the
volition of the organisers. If I'm not nominated that's all. Otherwise, I can't
be here to bother my fans to vote for me, NO!"
Zola nation, a fun page, listed him (Saint) on their Facebook page as one of the artists who have not been awarded in this year's MASO awards.
In
his reaction, the ‘HI-HA’ hit architect accentuated that he does not ‘fancy
thabwa for praises’ but ‘money for a living.’
“Get
this straight! I don’t do music for competition. I’m not in any competition
with anyone. I strive to make good music so that people should be dancing to
it. Music that at the end of the day would bring food on my table! Pay
rentals…” he said, sounding serious about it.
Saint-Realest
is one of the artists in the country whose fans describe as mature and reserved.
His ‘HI-HA’ song won the best video of the year award in the preceding UMP
awards.
Meanwhile,
this year’s MASO awards continue to be vilified by some entertainment fanatics
who, among others, are accusing the organizers for awarding some artists who
are not admirable.
Entertainment
writer and editor for Afro10ment, Don Afrika observes in his review of the
awards that other awardees can easily be suspected to have used shortcuts and
monkey tricks to emerge the best.
Other
pundits question how the last fishing boat, a well decollated multi-award
willing movie by Shemu Joya, produced in 2012, emerged to be a movie of the
year in 2022.
Organisers
of the awards were not promptly willing to comment on the accusations levelled
against them when we went to press.
