Popular fuji musician, Alabi Pasuma, has lamented the dearth of young fuji artistes.
He is worried that Sahanko Rasheed, who emerged on the scene decades ago as a child singer, is the last child act who came into the genre.
In an interview with ‘The Punch’, Pasuma said, “It is sad that budding fuji artistes now prefer to sing hip-hop. After Shanko Rasheed and his set, we are yet to find other young artistes doing fuji music. Even Destiny Boy that was meant to do fuji has decided to focus on hip-hop.
“After this COVID-19 pandemic, we have plans to organise a competition for talented fuji artistes. We keep seeing the same faces in fuji music circles, unlike the hip-hop genre where new talents are discovered every time. We would do whatever we can to grow fuji music.”
