Timaya's Success Story Untold (Must Read)

                                                     

Silence is one of the most important nonverbal cues of all time. Enetimi Alfred Odoma.k.aTimaya is no doubt a household name in Nigerian music industry. He has dished out hits upon hits since he kicked off his music career and trust me Timayais as relevant as any vibrant A-list celebrity. His silence about his private life is one of the most cherished among our superstars. Timaya has practically helped a lot of the big names in the industry today with no noise attached. The ‘ukwu’ crooner is an intelligent, loyal and creative personality. He is a respecter of all and believes so much that respect is reciprocal. In his exclusiveNndaniTVinterview with ToluOniru (Toolz),Timayaposits that;

2baba is my very good friend,I respect him a lot because I have always looked up to him. If we go out and he his drinking, I don’t drink because I have to look out for him.

That is respect right there. I am not of the opinion that without ‘A’ there wontbe‘B’ as it is popularly said in the industry. I will rather follow the same approach with Dtunes who said. ‘Without God there is no Sean Tizzle’rather than say without Dtunes there is no Sean Tizzle. This is not to say without Timaya this guyswont make it but itis to say Timayasuccess story can only be told by detail oriented media/music lovers. Just to mention but a few, Skales, Runtown and Patoranking are the success story am talking about. Some other people might be laying claims or taking the glory of Timaya but let the cap be worn by who deserves it. There is actually nothing much to say about skales but Raul Njeng-Njengwill personally not say his story without mentioning Timaya.After his contract expired with EME and he continued with life. The first big name he was affiliated with was Timaya. At that time,it was the rumour of Timayasigning him and Skalesstaying in Timaya’s house which he denied. Also, after been signed to his new record label(Baseline records), the first person he showed his car to was Timayaand if you do a semiotic analysis to that it means Timayais his biggest wellwisher. Runtown is a grateful heart who came to Lagos with Phyno, worked with J.martins and got close to Timayathrough J.martins and that was all. He became big with the help of a man to make a call of five minutes or there about that changed his life. Davido came into the picture and that was it. Patoranking ,the next big thing after Bob Marley as he as tagged himself met Timaya in his days with k.solo, two years after them and he stayed with Timayafor years and Alubarikacame in into the picture.Timaya was so concerned about his success even though in the real sense of it, nobody likes to leave the house when the fried rice is droped from the fire.Timaya left Patoranking for his new record label who spend lavishly on him without Timaya’sconsent(Foston music) even in partnership.He still called Patrick ‘one of the boys he can stand for,come reign come shine’. Moral lesson is that don’t make noise to be heard, your silence is acknowledged and respected by detail oriented people.

Wriiten by: Elega Adeola