MEET TUNDE EDNUT

CAN WE MEET YOU?

My name is tunde ednut,am from Kogi State, from the family of 5, 2 parent and 3 children, am the 2^nd born and 1^st boy among the 3 children

TELL US ABOUT YOUR ACADEMIC BACKGROUND.

I finished from THAMES VALLEY UNIVERSITY LONDON.I Studied at The University of Lagos (Unilag) for only 1 year and I had to further my studies at London due to some undisclosed reasons sha. In London I studied Graphics Arts(3D Effects and Cartoons) normal cartoons tho, not video cartoons ooh. While I was at Unilag I was at the Creative Art Dept. then but I later switched to Graphics Studies.

WHEN DID YOU START COMEDY?

I started comedy in Secondary School, and then continued at Unilag. I won a couple of awards at Unilag then before going to London. I had a couple of shows in London too. I originally started comedy in the late 90’s (1999 precisely).

WHAT FANS REALLY WANT TO KNOW IS THAT: WHY DID YOU CHANGE FROM COMEDY TO MUSIC ?

I have always liked Music, even before I started comedy. I was in a church choir when I was still a kid then before comedy came in. Even while I did comedy, I did it in line with music. Its either am behaving like D’BANJ or any order artist. So music has always been in me since. So my sudden transformation from comedy to music was just normal to me because music is a thing I love to do.

SO SINCE YOU STARTED MUSIC WHY DON’T YOU DO COMEDY AGAIN,LIKE YOU DOING BOTH COMEDY AND MUSIC .

As an entertainer I have the right to do both music and comedy but I don’t want to do so. I want to do music for now and face my music career then and put my entire mind into music so that my fans can feel me. And I want them to see me as a musician now and not as a comedian.

SO HOW DID YOUR FANS REACT TO THE SUDDEN CHANGE?

Well my fans reacted in a positive way, like 70% of them accepted it, while the remaining 30% didn’t. You know it’s not everybody that will like you *laughs*.

SO WHEN EXACTLY DID YOU START YOUR MUSIC CAREER AND HOW MANY TRACKS HAVE YOU RECORDED?

I started singing professionally early last year (2011), and I have a couple of tracks sha, and I’ve recorded some with some artists.

SO WHAT WAS YOUR 1^ST TRACK LIKE?

The 1^st track I recorded was last year January 2011. I was at Samklef’s studio and he was making a beat and then I was free styling on the beat and he  was like I should enter the vocal booth and voice on the track, but I didn’t want to do  it ,but he forced me and I went into the booth and sang the song. Skales later came into the studio and added some small pepper on the song sha. I recorded it and it was very cool. It was titled “my kind of song“

SO HOW WAS THE RECORDING OF THE TRACKS?

So while I was with samklef in his studio, was sha free styling then all what I was saying was that “have been waiting for dj to play my kind of song I like” then Skales entered and was listening to the beat then later said “me I want to jinkolo, hear my song for igboro’’ So I later entered the vocal boot and did the song sha. It was all good.

SO AFTER MY KIND OF SONG, WHAT TRACK DID YOU  DO?

After “my kind of song’’, I sang “catching cold’’, then I did “jingle bell” during the Christmas period with Iceprince, Davido , JJC ,Lynxx.

AFTER YOU DID THAT JINGLE BELL TRACK MOST PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT YOU BEEN RAZZ.THEN HOW DID YOU GET ICEPRINCE AND THE REST TO FEATURE ON THE TRACK?

The real idea behind that song was that we wanted to do something for Christmas, so I called Davido and told him about it, and he was like “let me do the beat” but I told him that d beat was ready that he should just come and voice on it. So I called Iceprince and he said ok, that he was feeling the concept. I later called Lynxx but he was in the US and would be coming back the next day .So after I called JJC that he should come and record for us. And he said he wanted to feature on the track too, and I was like “that will be cool”. So we were all in the studio  thinking about which Christmas song we could remix, so I brought up the idea of jingle bell and everybody agreed on it so we made it look razz and still nice.

AFTER JINGLE BELL WHAT TRACK DID YOU RELEASE AGAIN?

After jingle bell I released 2 new singles .BUGA WON and CATCHING COLD REMIX feat DR SID.

WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO CHOOSE DR SID FOR THE SONG?

When I had the beat of the song with me, I went to Dr Sid’s house, and he played the beat. So he was just doing some  rap freestyle and by the time he finished the freestyle I  used  to put “am catching cold oooooh” so DR SID  later  asked me that why don’t we do the remix of catching cold  and I said ok  that we should do the track .so that  was how we did the remix.

RECENTLY ON TWITTER, I SAW YOUR TWEET AND YOU WHERE LIKE YOU NEEDED 5 YOUNG UPCOMING RAPPERS THAT WILL BE FEATURED IN THE CATCHING COLD REMIX (RAP VERSION). WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO DO SO?

Yeah!!! That idea was giving to me by my uncle (ALIBABA THE COMEDIAN). Alibaba told me that I should do so, he also said that I should do so, he also said that it will help in promoting the young upcoming rappers. So I took is advice and got the upcoming we wanted though twitter. We wanted 5 rappers but later ended up pick 6 rappers.

I HEARD THAT YOU DON’T DRINK AND SMOKE, HOW TRUE IS THAT?

Well it is very true. I don’t drink or smoke.  Just don’t like drinking alcohol and smoking.

SO HOW DO YOU COPE WITH YOUR FEMALE FANS?

i been into entertainment industry for a while so I know how to control myself and female fans. And am already used to it.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TURNED DOWN BY A LADY???

Nope!!!

SO WHAT WAS YOUR WORST MOMENT EVER??

My worst moment was when I went to perform in a show in London, and my zip was opened. it was so embarrassing and annoying.

WHAT ADVICE WILL YOU GIVE FOR UPCOMING ACT???

For upcoming act just make sure you put GOD 1^st in everything you do and don’t listen to haters, because they will always want to pull you down.

SHOUTOUT!!!

ITS QUAVIDIS ENTERTAINMENT BABY IS TUNDE EDNUT OOOOOH!!!!!!!!Shout out to everyone out there that supports good  music and to all my fans out there GOD BLESS YOU ALL………….KEEP IT REAL.