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Fiokee Shares How He Learned To Play Guitar From A Taxi Driver

Fiokee needs no introduction in the music industry, he's a very talented and exceptional guitarist who has worked with different artists in the music industry.

Fiokee needs no introduction in the music industry, he's a very talented and exceptional guitarist who has worked with different artists in the music industry.

 

He was on the road show with Gucci to talk about his debut album and also shared his story as a guitarist and how he had to hustle his way up. 

 

“I heard a taxi driver taught you how to play Guitar,” Gucci asked. 

 

Fiokee answered with a very emotional story of how he took a job as a sales boy in order to save enough to buy a guitar: “I earned one thousand naira monthly in 1999, so I had to work for three months to afford a guitar.” 

 

He also explained the reason why he picked guitar out of every other musical instruments. 

 

“I picked guitar because you don’t need light to play, unlike keyboard.”

 

Fiokee recently dropped a 14-track album featuring 25 artiste on this exciting debut album titled “MEN”. Names like Bella Shmurda, Simi, Oxlade and other artists across Africa are on this project.

 

Watch full interview to learn more about Fiokee and his debut album.