LOCATION- WAZOBIA FM, Victoria Island, Lagos.
DATE- 10th March 2011, 2.15 P.M.
We were a few minutes late so we hurriedly exited the car and walked briskly into the renowned Chocolate Royal. She was already waiting and beckoned us over to where she was sitting. It was a great privilege to finally meet the sensational voice on the radio. A presenter extraordinaire. She didn’t look much like her voice but that was to be expected. We warmed up to her immediately as she drew us in with light jokes and friendly ‘yabs’. We finally came round to the matter at hand and the atmosphere took a solemn turn.
“See, I will not lie to you guys because you are like brothers to me. Radio promotion of your song cannot be bought with money.” She paused dramatically for effect. “Your song has to have that certain appeal.” she finished gesticulating with her hands to properly convey her meaning.
“Eh...How then do we introduce the song to your other radio colleagues?” I asked. “What can we give them that will make sense at least to start up something?”
Just then, her blackberry beeped and she glanced down at it and quickly typed something on it. Without looking up, she queried. “How much do you guys have to start promotion in our station here?”
We glanced at ourselves and tried to deliberate visually.
“How much do you guys have?” she insisted impatiently.
“N50,000.”
“OK, I will help you guys get it to Matse, OBJ and eh..Dwana. That’s the people I can assess. At least I can give them the song and say, ah, this one na my broad O!abeg help me play am.”
“what about Yaw?”someone asked.
“ahh!” She burst out quickly. “Yaw is not among O! Na no fit pay Yaw money O!”
We all smiled and released some tension. Minute’s later money exchanged hands in a brown envelope that also contained the promo copies. We parted smiling, us dreaming about being great stars with the promotion we were about to get. Little did we know that, a week later we would be quarreling over not hearing the song at all on radio and the presenters she promised to give the promo copy to, denying having ever received anything from her.
Little did we know.
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