Afro juju
exponent, Sir Shina Peters, has opened up on how the Covid-19 lockdown has
humbled him and how he now spends his saving as no current jobs are
forthcoming!
Sir Shina
Peters poured out his mind in this chat with City people saying.
”As regards Covid-19
I have learnt a lot. The Covid-19 has shown to us that this life is far more
delicate than we can imagine. I now
believe that whatever you are doing today in a second, the table can turn
around. I have learnt to be more conscious. I have learnt to be more humble,
because we may be seeing today and tomorrow we are no more together.
Apart from
that for us, especially it’s only when we are eating and dinning together we
remember ourselves. We have been indoor for 3 months now.
So I have
learnt to be more cautious now especially when it comes to savings. If we don’t
work for 3 months and money is not coming from anywhere, if you don’t know how
would you will manage, if the money is not forthcoming, the one you saved too
will finish.
As long as we
are still on the lockdown there is nothing like music, there is nothing like
concert, there is nothing like social life. So if this pandemic continues till
next year, how are we going to survive? But people are talking about banking
they are talking about corporate world, they are forgetting that it’s we
artistes they always use when they are going up there.
They use us
when they are going for the Presidency, Senate etc. to be singing for them. But
today no one is remembering us. That’s why I learnt to respect integrity. If
you have integrity you have everything God forbid, I will not go into the
street and be begging people for money, but what I am saying is it’s good to
save because this kind of thing can still happen any time. What I am spending
now is my past savings. We always advise artistes to always make sure their
music is a constant materials. By the grace of God I have many materials to
turn to money anyday anytime. But what about those artistes who have sold their
master tapes?”

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