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Nigerian musician Gabriel Oche Amanyi, nicknamed Terry G, has given details about his personal life.
He confessed that he does not have friends in the Nigerian music industry. According to him, he’s a loner.
He also added that his relationship with other musicians in the industry is not solid. The ‘Akpako Master’ was partially responsible for his personality features.
He remarked that he is “a loner” who has never made friends. In a recent episode of The Honest Bunch Podcast.
Terry G commented:
“I have never had friends, not just in the music industry but my entire life. I am a loner.
“I spend my time at the studio. I usually have business colleagues, people who do business with me. I don’t play.
“To be honest, I think my child is my only friend. Any other person close to me, it is just business.
“There are some of my colleagues like Timaya who used to be close to me but we are not close anymore. And nothing happened. We just grew apart.
“We do phone each other but phone conversation is different from physical relationship. Although we always exchange pleasantries whenever we run into each other.
“My relationship with Illbliss is very cool, we had issues back then but we later settled.”
In other news, Segun Arinze, the renowned Nigerian actor, has revealed how he got his stage name.The film actor, who was initially known as Segun Aina, stated that he changed his stage name to ‘Segun Arinze’ in 1991 while pursuing a music career.
The popular Nollywood star spoke during a recent interview with Biola Bayo on the ‘TalktoB’ podcast.
He recounted;
“I was also singing. In 1991, I was told someone wanted to sign me. ‘We are going to sign you on’. He came from Sony Music. So he called me and I signed the contract. He signed. And then he said ‘Okay we are going to start recording’,” he said in a recent chat with Biola Bayo on the ‘TalktoB’ podcast.
“Went to Ife to do Dramatic Arts. My dad did not like the idea because he wanted me to be a lawyer. At a point in time, I thought he was not going to pay my school fees to go and read drama.
“Then the National Theatre was running an open theatre then… ‘welcome new artiste Segun Arinze’. I said ‘excuse me sir what is this? I said why are you changing my name? The album came out – ‘Dreams’. Everywhere was ‘Segun Arinze, Segun Arinze. That was how the name got changed from Segun Aina to Segun Arinze in a nutshell”.
The 58-year-old movie star also disclosed the story behind his foray into the voice-over industry. Arinze recounted being introduced to voice acting by Soni Irabor, a renowned radio broadcaster. He fondly reminisced about earning N1,000 for his inaugural voice-over gig back in 1987.
“Soni Irabor walks in someday and he was looking for voice-over artiste. There was nobody around that day then he heard me speak,” he said.
“Then he said ‘You can do the voice’ Really? I cannot, he said ‘Yes, you can and I will see what you do’. And I did the voice-over. He paid me N1000. That was 1987. N1000 for just doing (voice-over). I said this is big. Coloured TV was N500 at that time.”
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