{"id":647891,"date":"2019-07-01T10:53:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T10:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div itemprop=\"description\">\n\t\t<p>By Rotimi Agbana<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the likes of versatile musician, Orezi, the \u2018Shoki\u2019 crooner maintain \u00a0\u00a0relevance on a highly competitive Nigerian music scene raises the question of how he manages to do so because many "},"modified":"2019-07-01T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T10:53:42","slug":"talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/","title":{"rendered":"Talent without money a waste of time &#8211; Orezi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>By Rotimi Agbana<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the likes of versatile musician, Orezi, the \u2018Shoki\u2019 crooner maintain \u00a0\u00a0relevance on a highly competitive Nigerian music scene raises the question of how he manages to do so because many believe he is yet to stamp his feet musically like Wizkid, Davido, D\u2019Banj, 2Baba, among other top shots.<\/p>\n<p><!-- between content ad --><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_791170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-791170\" style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-791170 size-full jetpack-lazy-image\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"250\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"  data-lazy- src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/Orezi02.png\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-791170 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/1561978422_19_Orezi02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"250\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-791170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orezi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m conscious of weight of my responsibilities \u2013 Buhari<span class=\"A11yNotice-u1v0gg-0 dWDZbM\">(Opens in a new browser tab)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, in a chat with <strong><em>Showtime<\/em><\/strong>, the \u2018Cooking Pot\u2019 singer revealed how he has been able to continuously succeed in his music-making craft. According to him, talent without money is a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe secret behind my musical career is paying attention; I listen to my environment and try to understand what the fans want. My biggest surprise getting into the industry was finding out that it is a money driven industry. Sometimes, your talent don\u2019t matter where there is no proper funding\u201d, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>He added that given the opportunity to go back in time, he would ensure he takes adequate advantage of every opportunity that comes his way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the opportunity to go back in time I would take the chances to be a better me; take all the opportunities that ever came my way and constantly releasing music for my fans\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on how 2019 has been for him so far, he said; \u201c2019 has been great, I\u2019ve been taking my time to create the kind of music I want to release this year, my year began in April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When <strong><em>Showtime <\/em><\/strong>quizzed him on which of his songs he considers his biggest so far; he said; \u201cMy biggest song so far will be \u2018Rihanna\u2019, especially outside the shores of Nigeria. But in Nigeria, maybe \u2018Shoki\u2019 and \u2018Ogede\u2019 ft Wizkid and Timaya.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\tjs.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.9&appId=1281965775160257\";\n\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>\n\t\/\/Facebook\n\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t  js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.4&appId=513460408765074\";\n\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rotimi Agbana Seeing the likes of versatile musician, Orezi, the \u2018Shoki\u2019 crooner maintain \u00a0\u00a0relevance on a highly competitive Nigerian music scene raises the question of how he manages to do so because many believe he is yet to stamp his feet musically like Wizkid, Davido, D\u2019Banj, 2Baba, among other top shots. Orezi I\u2019m conscious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":647892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[157,3424,3423,776,2076],"class_list":["post-647891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood","tag-money","tag-orezi","tag-talent","tag-time","tag-waste"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Talent without money a waste of time - Orezi - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Talent without money a waste of time - Orezi - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Rotimi Agbana Seeing the likes of versatile musician, Orezi, the \u2018Shoki\u2019 crooner maintain \u00a0\u00a0relevance on a highly competitive Nigerian music scene raises the question of how he manages to do so because many believe he is yet to stamp his feet musically like Wizkid, Davido, D\u2019Banj, 2Baba, among other top shots. Orezi I\u2019m conscious [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/01\\\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/01\\\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\"},\"headline\":\"Talent without money a waste of time &#8211; Orezi\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-01T10:53:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/01\\\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":306,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/01\\\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"keywords\":[\"money\",\"Orezi\",\"Talent\",\"Time\",\"Waste\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Nollywood\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/01\\\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/01\\\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/01\\\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\\\/\",\"name\":\"Talent without money a waste of time - Orezi - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/01\\\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/01\\\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-01T10:53:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/01\\\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/01\\\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Talent without money a waste of time - Orezi - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Talent without money a waste of time - Orezi - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"By Rotimi Agbana Seeing the likes of versatile musician, Orezi, the \u2018Shoki\u2019 crooner maintain \u00a0\u00a0relevance on a highly competitive Nigerian music scene raises the question of how he manages to do so because many believe he is yet to stamp his feet musically like Wizkid, Davido, D\u2019Banj, 2Baba, among other top shots. Orezi I\u2019m conscious [&hellip;]","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/"},"author":{"name":"Ghana News","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#\/schema\/person\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036"},"headline":"Talent without money a waste of time &#8211; Orezi","datePublished":"2019-07-01T10:53:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/"},"wordCount":306,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","keywords":["money","Orezi","Talent","Time","Waste"],"articleSection":["Nollywood"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/","name":"Talent without money a waste of time - Orezi - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2019-07-01T10:53:42+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#\/schema\/person\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/01\/talent-without-money-a-waste-of-time-orezi\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#\/schema\/person\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}