Fast-rising singer, Nwodo Chinonso Victor, known as Kolaboy, recently released his five-track EP titled ‘Kola from the East’ with classic highlife featuring Flavour and other big names in the music industry. The Enugu-born artiste revealed that he started music from performing at social gatherings in secondary school.
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“I was made the social prefect back then, that was when the music stuff began and I started recording independently in Onitsha,” Kolaboy said.
Describing his music style, Kolaboy said: “Generally, what we do in Africa is Afrobeat but in Afrobeat I feel that there are some sub-genres. I am not limited to a particular sound. When I started music, I wanted to be peculiar and do something different from what others have been doing. I came in with the storytelling brand, where you make songs out of stories of yourself.

“The first song I made was a storytelling one, ‘Hello Mummy.’ It was basically a fictional and non-fictional story about myself, and that was before I started exploring other aspects of music, including the highlife part. What I was trying to do with my brand was like a bridge.”

He stated that one of his favourite songs was Hello Mummy, a conversation between a mother and child: “It was more like a letter to my mother trying to explain youthful exuberance. There is a particular way all parents see entertainers. I come from a religious background, there is this perspective they have about all entertainers. I was writing to tell her and explain the reason I am doing music, and I am not going astray because I am following my dreams.”

Commenting on the new EP, he said: “I am promoting the tracks and extended plays, which contains five song, first is a feature with Flavour titled Normal Thing, second is Ojabili, featuring MC Young, third Utotommiri, featuring Iyi Don, fourth is Eze, featuring Ojadili One, the fifth one is Uwa Mgbede, which I did alone. These are ancestral sounds.”

Excited to work alongside big names like Flavour, the young rapper said: “It is a dream come true because they are pioneers and I grew up listening to them, people I watched on television. I have always wanted to make songs with Flavour and I have a feature from Harrysong, and, recently, a song featuring Chichotin.”
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