Ofege - Nobody Fails
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The lead track from Ofege's classic 1973 album Try and Love.
Band co-founder Melvin Ukachi tells the very personal back-story behind the song:
"I am from an Igbo family and we had been caught up in the Biafran war in the East so, after the war, Dad was reinstated back into the Nigerian police. In 1971, there was a mutiny in the police force which was linked to government. Some of the Yoruba officers conspired against the Igbo and sacked all of them without warning. So, my Dad had to return home and I was abandoned in Lagos and left with a guardian from our village representing my Dad who lived in the city. I was stranded in school, even though during holidays I would travel East to go home back to the village. I had to measure up to the other students because our school was an elite school, for children of successful businessmen and government officials. So, all of that really affected me and my compositions. “Nobody fails. They will never fail to break your heart, see nobody loves you, never loves you ‘til you die.” We trusted people and suddenly my family fell from grace to grass and it was a blow."
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Видео Ofege - Nobody Fails канала Strut Records
The lead track from Ofege's classic 1973 album Try and Love.
Band co-founder Melvin Ukachi tells the very personal back-story behind the song:
"I am from an Igbo family and we had been caught up in the Biafran war in the East so, after the war, Dad was reinstated back into the Nigerian police. In 1971, there was a mutiny in the police force which was linked to government. Some of the Yoruba officers conspired against the Igbo and sacked all of them without warning. So, my Dad had to return home and I was abandoned in Lagos and left with a guardian from our village representing my Dad who lived in the city. I was stranded in school, even though during holidays I would travel East to go home back to the village. I had to measure up to the other students because our school was an elite school, for children of successful businessmen and government officials. So, all of that really affected me and my compositions. “Nobody fails. They will never fail to break your heart, see nobody loves you, never loves you ‘til you die.” We trusted people and suddenly my family fell from grace to grass and it was a blow."
Follow Strut:
https://www.facebook.com/StrutRecords/
https://twitter.com/StrutRecords
https://www.instagram.com/strutrecords/
http://www.strut-records.com/
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