Multiple award-winning
Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, has said that the desire for glamour and appeal
is the reason entertainers cannot stop being sexual in their performances.
She said this while
addressing some pressing issues in the Nigerian music industry as a guest on an
entertainment show hosted by Arise Television, which was monitored by
DAILYPOST.
According to her,
entertainers cannot be stopped from adapting sexual scenes in their stage-craft
but can be regulated through appropriate guidelines provided by a competent
body or authority.
She, however, disclosed
that contemporary musicians were misunderstood in a similar way the late
Afrobeat King, Fela’s dancers were misunderstood because of their sexual
displays on stage.
Savage said: “There is
no way a movie and entertainment will not have sexual scenes. You cannot stop
an artiste from being sexual in entertainment
“The only thing we can
do as Africans is to provide guidelines.
“When I performed
initially in Nigeria, they screamed that it was too much; that it was too
sexual. We are still fighting the same battle the Fela girls fought.
“Fela’s girls were
misunderstood. What they did on stage was just entertainment.
“What they do on stage
doesn’t mean that they are loose off stage. People say Fela is godfather but
people forget the women that added glamour to Fela’s show.”
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