Waje Iruobe has been in the music industry for some time. Her voice added more spice to P Square’s Do Me, but not many people know that the pretty girl is the face behind the voice in that track. She tells ’Nonye Ben-Nwankwo why she wasn’t given credit in the album
Why do you find it easy to play live music when those more experienced than you still need the
services of a DJ before they can perform on stage?I believe that you can’t really appreciate music until you hear it live. As an entertainer, you are given the liberty to express yourself at will. If you are using the CD, you are confined to one spot. People come to watch you on stage because they want to see you perform in the real essence of it. You can do whatever you like to the same music they have heard before and it will be so soft to their ears. That is basically why I do live shows.
Is it that easy?
It is not easy at all. I am still an up-and-coming artiste. I don’t have an 11 or 14-man band; we are still growing. I have eight band members. But the good thing is that we are like a family. They understand me and they know where I am coming from. The first meeting we had, I told them it didn’t really matter what they found themselves doing, a lot of people will not find fulfillment until they hear them do what they are doing. I believe that a lot of people will not be fulfilled until they hear me sing.
Is Waje your real name?
Yes. I am from Edo State. I shortened the name and I added an acronym to it.
You have been in the industry for a while now…
Yes. This is a country where we believe that you have to pay your dues. All that time, I guess I was paying my dues.
So when did you start music professionally?
That should be when I met P Square. I wasn’t big, but I wasn’t an underground chic either.
So how did you meet P Square?
It was in Enugu. I was just doing my thing before then and getting some gigs as I could. After my performance, they met me back stage and I told them I was a huge fan of theirs. They told me they enjoyed my performance. After that, I was watching one of their videos on Channel O. I decided to do a remix of that song, Omoge mi. J Martins was and still is my very good friend. So, with his help, I remixed the song and I sent it to P Square. They loved it and they put it on their Busybody 2. That was the first time anybody heard anything I had done. So when they started working on the Game Over album, they called me and asked me if I could do a song with them. Who wouldn’t agree to that? Of course, I said yes and they flew me down to Lagos. I went to the studio with them and we did Do Me. It was at that point that I decided to do this professionally.
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