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Nigerian singer Peter Okoye, aka Mr P of the P-Square duo, has opened up on his split from his twin brother, Paul Okoye, aka Rudeboy.
According to him, there is a joy that comes with a solo career.
Speaking in a recent interview with Cool FM, Lagos, Mr P urged fans to respect their decisions, stressing that they tried to remain as a duo, but it wasn’t working.
“There’s a joy that comes with going solo. Please respect our decisions. We’ve tried it, it’s not working,” he said.
The Eastern Updates recalls that Paul confirmed in August last year that P-Square had broken up again. The group first split in 2016 but reunited in 2021.
In another news, Senegalese-American singer, Akon has revealed that he played a key role in the career success of Nigerian international Afrobeats star Wizkid.
He claimed that the Starboy crooner was just a local musician before he signed him to his record label in 2008 and brushed him up.
Speaking in a recent episode of the Bagfuel Brigade podcast, Akon also claimed that Afrobeats wouldn’t have been what it is today without him developing some artists in Nigeria and opening bigger markets for them in the late 2000s to 2010s.
“In 2008, I spent my time in Nigeria developing what you see today as Afrobeats. And all of them can attest to it,” he said.
“Wizkid was the first [Nigerian] artist we signed officially at that time. And then we went on to sign a group called P-Square, which was the first [Nigerian] group that made it internationally.
“Wizkid was just the local Nigerian star before we touched him and it opened up to a bigger market. I wouldn’t want to take credit for all of it but I can tell you that if we didn’t do what we did, Afrobeats would still have been in the same position it was when we got there [Nigeria in 2008]. That I can tell you 100 per cent.
