An up-and-coming artiste, Michael Mbonye, popularly known as “Ryda”, has advised the youths to remain focused on their goals and avoid distractions, saying that focus is an important virtue to possess in trying to succeed in their choice of career.
Ryda, a graduate of Computer Science from Caritas University in Enugu, gave the advice in an interview on Sunday in Lagos.
He said that this was the main message to his fans in his forthcoming album, “Riding to the West”, to be released to the public before the end of the year.
According to him, the 10-track album is mainly storytelling, which encompasses different music genres like hip-hop, afrobeat, drills, alternative and more.
“My album, “Riding to the West”, which will be released toward the end of the year tells a lot about how it has been for me from my relationships to my time in school, and my family and reaffirms that people need to be focused to achieve their dreams.
“In view of what is happening in the society currently, where the majority of the youths get influenced negatively, engaging in different forms of social vices, I advise every youth to stay focused and consciously guide against being distracted even as elections approach,” he said.
Ryda said that he picked an interest in singing when he lived with his uncle, who always listened to music and haven studied the lifestyle of most Nigerian musicians, he fell in love with them and decided to embrace music.
He said that he started by writing poems, and visiting YouTube to get instrumentals which could accompany his lyrics.
Ryda disclosed that his role model in the entertainment industry was Burna Boy.
According to him, Burna Boy’s music is usually loaded with positive content, and he wishes to have a musical collaboration with him soon.
He said before now, he had produced six singles including “Fresh Out of Benz”, “Memories”, “No Time for Loving”, “It Is Okay”, “Call My Phone” and “Sweet Colours”.
Also another budding musician, Marcel Obute, popularly known as “D Masel”, had advised Nigerian youths on the need to be patient in trying to attain success.
“Considering the rate at which the youth embrace all forms of social vices in a bid to be successful, this indicates that the virtue of patience has been jettisoned by most of them,” he said.
He noted that patience, hard work and focus were important virtues to possess in trying to be successful.
He said to further educate the youths on this, he would be releasing his second single soon, titled, “Something Hooge”.
According to him, “Something Hooge” tries to calm the youths to be responsible, hardworking, focused and patient.
“I observed that the youths are no longer patient to achieve pure success void of rituals and all manner of bad attitudes, I want them to know that there is a need for them to be patient and hardworking to achieve success.
“My single, ‘Something Hooge’, is a hit that tells our Nigerian youths that we will get there one day, expecting our different blessings from different angles.
“Something hooge gives us that hope that we are all expecting huge blessings from God.
“The inspiration behind the song is my belief of making it to the top by believing that something huge would surely come for me one day,” he said.
D Masel, who collaborated with renowned comedian, Sabinus, in the single “Sabinus”, said what informed that decision was also to embrace the comedy industry.
