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Nigerian
gospel singer, Kenny St Best, has challenged the Performing Musician
Association of Nigeria, over the body’s inability to regulate the
content of music videos being released by its members.
The singer also known as KSB said the decadence portrayed in the videos was assuming a terrible dimension.
“The fact that every industry has a body that governs
and checks its activities and the music industry has none has made it
an all-comer affair. Nobody is regulating, us. PMAN has failed in
itself. If the body is doing its job properly, it is not in my place to
fight it. But I will make noise and criticise my colleagues openly. It
is getting terrible,” she says
It will be recalled that the petite artiste recently
caused a stir on Twitter when she challenged the Marvin Crew boss, Don
Jazzy, over the semi-nudity in Wande Coal’s music video, Go Low.
Although the video was banned shortly after, KSB has
come under attack from fans and critics who felt that she went a step
too far.
In defence, she says, “It was not a personal attack. I
had to reach out to Don Jazzy because he is a big guy in the industry
and so people will naturally follow him; more so Wande Coal is an
artiste under his label. If I don’t make it a duty to speak out as a
woman and practitioner them I have failed I had to speak out on Twitter
to my colleagues because I felt it is a better forum, even if they do
not get to read it, their followers will read and re-tweet. NBC should
wake up. It is not until a video has been well played and thoroughly
digested that the regulators should now act.”
The singer, who was once known as Kenny St Brown, says the power to stop the trend also lies in the hands of TV stations.
“If the NBC cannot nip this trend in the bud, then
the TV stations should set up a department to screen the videos before
they hit the screen. There must be a penalty. It is getting too bad and
has an effect on children, women and men. Little wonder there is an
increase in rape cases.”
