Nigeria Born Daniel Onuigwe popularly known as Dandy, and imperially slim 6.2
inch tall with glowing fair skin, a producer and a song writer from Imo
state Okigwe L.G.A who grew up in western part of Nigeria Lagos. Being a
privileged child he is the 5th and the only son of his parent amongst 6
girls.It early afternoon and dandy is running late to record one of his
artist in his studio, he steps out of his car filled with apologies.
Frankly speaking, I wasn’t really paying attention to what he was saying
as I was totally blown away with his humility. So you wouldn’t really
blame me for standing there transfixed and sizing up the prince
charming. Most times celebrities find it really hard to define
themselves, in some cases they end up giving ambiguous answers when
questions about their personalities are asked. For Dandy the question of
defining himself founds vague but it successfully takes a different
route to answering the question about him. ”sometimes I wish we could
ban people from asking us to tell them about ourselves because
truthfully it is not the easiest question to answer.” He says” people
think that celebrities know themselves, but the truth is they don’t. So
I am just a regular person that others see in a glowing bus called the
T.V. I’m just a very simple person”. Why dandy? He has this to say “my
mum actually gave me the name Dandy because I care a lot about my looks
and appearance; I believe personal style is the reflection of who you
are on the inside. My personal style comes from inside so for me it’s an
expression of who I am. I always evolve and also like to be comfortable
with what I wear at the same time. Talking about the R&B music and
how it all started, Dandy said” I had always wanted to go into music,
music was my first love and it was singing, I knew all along that I am
going to end up here eventually, we all started way back when I was a
kid let say during my secondary school days and around my penultimate
year. I got exposed to hip-hop and R & B music, I realized that
hip-hop was of one of the things that made you look cool, and hence a
lot of us were drawn towards it. Even if it was against the school rules
to bring musical gadgets into school, I would sneak in my Walkman and
everyone will be talking about it. So it was all about being hip and
being a part of the “in” crowd. I use to make a lot of noisy sounds with
my desk at school. Later on I joined the RCCG teens church (Wisdom
Chapel) Cornerstone Modern Parish where we formed an accapella musical
group called “The Echoes of Wisdom”.
We came out with an album titled
“Change My Night” but couldn’t go far because we broke out.With all the
recent talk of tracks like (Kia-Kia) meaning sharp- sharp right? “yes!
(Egeshilo & Dangerous game) the album is set to go multi-platinum
and with his talents and personality it is clear that he is an humble
artist who will outlive the hype. “This is my maiden album; I just
completed it and just shot a video for
Kia-Kia featuring O’cube, (Download link available-click blue link) the
video was shot by Iyke man of Urban Touch. So what I am really focusing
on is making sure that this Album is a success and that means having to
promote the album is not enough to put out an album. I’ve got to keep
shooting good videos, making new connections, meeting new people and
most importantly winning fans over, he concluded.
