“I don’t think anybody in their right mind would compare me to Fela. Fela is my inspiration and my childhood hero, so if you think comparing me to Fela is honorable, it’s actually not. It actually makes me feel weird. Fela was Fela, and if it wasn’t for Fela, there probably wouldn’t be any me, so I don’t understand the comparison.”
These are the words of star singer, Burna Boy, speaking on his relationship with afro beat legend, Fela Ankulapo-Kuti.
In an interview with Q Magazine, Burna Boy also said he put primacy on being able to affect people’s feelings above the financial success of his works:
“I don’t really have a high regard for numbers, because numbers have no feelings, they have no soul, whereas I do,” he explains. “My ‘numbers’ is the people who have actually felt the feeling that the music is supposed to carry across and in the process received the message.”
