How I React When Clients Want to Pay Me With Naira - Yemi Alade

Nigerian singer Yemi Alade is a renowned musician whose music has crossed over the shores of Nigeria and has gone global so that she is sought over all parts of the world. With the weakening state of the naira these days, Yemi Alade opens up in an interview with Gbemi about how she deals with people who want to book her paying naira, and why such people would be wasting their time. Here is what Yemi Alade had to say.

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Speaking about her booking and why clients who want to book her paying naira are wasting their time, Yemi Alade said:

YEMI ALADE: If anybody comes to ask me for naira, they're wasting their time. Because over time, my craft and everything I do musically has become somewhat of a really huge extension of myself - as in my band, how they look, how we translate our music on stage; I created something that people would need to afford. And I'm not just talking about me, but the need for the show to really come alive. And it's not like we don't get bookings from Nigeria, we do. But most people are not able to see to fruition what our vision is. My band has a minimum of six musicians and two dancers, that's my tight niche. That's minus my engineer who must be everywhere we go. I've also distributed my band in a way where I have a London based band, an American based band, and they can also come together to play as a big royal band. The name of my band is African Train, so when the train moves from the UK to the States, or however, it depends on your budget. If you pay the premium, you get the whole family. Then depending on the number of venues as well, we have to consider logistics - how to move from point A to point B. But yeah, that's it.

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