Every artist I worked with, like Lagbaja- I set up their bands. I met Lagbaja when I was working at Sony Music with Mr. Laolu Akins. If you’d remember, I’d worked earlier with one of the finest bassists ever produced in the country called Majek Fashek. Lagbaja approached me to help him set up a band. But it took him almost a year to convince me to work with him. So I set up the band and he started working at Pintos, Jack N Top, Bread and Butter. And when it was time for him to enter into the studio, he came to me and said he wanted to record. I was very happy with that and together we entered Decca studios and recorded his first work. The self titled album was released under Mother Land Records. And when it was time to record his second album titled Cool Temper, I told him I’d prefer we release the album under a notable label that’ll be able to promote it well. And that was when Sony Music came to my mind. I chose Sony Music because I was close to them. He argued with me, pointing out that some of the artists on the label like Mike Okri and Adewale Ayuba had the company. I told him that people who don’t like people eating from them don’t grow. The bottom line was that even if they had to eat from him, they had the network for him to grow. So Sony Music released that album and the rest is history. I worked with him for six years before I left to do other things. I had to move onto other artists. I also worked with Miatta Fahnbulleh (A Liberian artist) from my Root Foundation days. I joined Root Foundation in 1979 and paid my dues the hard way.

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