Grammy-winning Nigerian singer Burna Boy has denied using songwriters as suggested by Davido’s signee, Logos Olori.
Logos Olori had stated in a recent interview with City 105.
Fm, that not just his boss Davido, but Wizkid, Burna Boy and other big artists
use songwriters.
He said: “Most people that shame artists for using
songwriters don’t know much about the music business. As a musician you tend to
write your songs most times when you are up-and-coming. When you’ve 10 shows in
a week in different countries, you’ll understand that you need a songwriter.
“Chris Brown has a songwriter, Michael Jackson had a
songwriter. Davido is currently on tour immediately after his wedding. He
writes his songs sometimes but most times he has to do the business part of it.
That’s how Burna Boy is, that’s how most artists are even Wizkid but they don’t
just put it out there but if you go to Spotify to check for the credits of
their songs, you will see that they use songwriters as well.”
Reacting via his X handle, Burna Boy claimed that he doesn’t
use songwriters, stressing that those credited as songwriters on his songs are
the producers due to western music policies.
He wrote: “Any name you see credited on my songs are only
producers of the songs or featured artists not writers. But for some reason the
western world considers producers as writers of the instrumentals and they just
throw their names on there as writers. Nobody fit write for Odogwu.”
This contradicts Burna Boy’s public admission a few years
back that Davido’s signee, Peruzzi, wrote a song for him.
He claimed back then that Peruzzi was the only songwriter he
has ever used.
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