Popular musician, Bright Chimezie a.ka. Okoro Junior has denied being arrested…
“It wasn’t my own Bright Chimezie that was arrested. Nobody arrested me and I never had anything linking me up with DSS. I heard about it, and I’m using this medium to put the record straight and to tell my fans that I was never arrested by anybody. I have never been detained before in my life and I will not be detained by anybody.”
“I don’t know how to put it, let’s say it is God. Even myself, I cannot explain it. As each day unfolds, I get more energy. I take things moderately. I exercise and eat wisely.”
“I just released a new album titled, ‘Truth and Justice’. That has been my style right from when I started my musical journey. Once you have a fresh album, you hit the road, you play it live; you endear it to people. That is how we started and we are sustaining it.”
“We are basically in Lagos to introduce ‘Truth and Justice’ to our fans. It took you so long to release this album, why? One thing with Zigima is like we are writers. I consider each album as a book. I have just written a book. Novelists don’t write books anyhow.”
“I keep telling people that I am not a commercial musician. Most things I say are not commercial. They are deep. I don’t depend so much on the sales of my records. I depend on enshrining my philosophy, my thoughts in the hearts of men. It takes us long to work out the song, rhythm and the peculiar Zigima touch it normally has.”
“I have a personal doctor but I have never had any reason to give him urgent call on my health. No emergency at all. I grew up doing it. I cannot stay for two weeks without a show. If there is no show, I create one.”
“I didn’t disappear. I am a family man. There comes a time in a man’s life when you think of the future. I am married with five children. I had four boys while I was living Lagos who never knew where I come from, who couldn’t even speak my language. I looked at myself, a cultural ambassador. In future, they will ask any of my sons in Igbo ‘how are you?’”
“He would answer: ‘my father said I am Igbo.’ I said I am not going to do that. I called my wife and I said, if I ask you to go to the village and get these kids indoctrinated in the culture and tradition of my people, they would say Okoro Junior abandoned his wife in the village and he is chasing small girls in Lagos. I said no. We are relocating.”
– Culled from VANGUARD