Nigerian singer and songwriter Stanley Omah Didia, popularly known as Omah Lay has revealed that a colleague, whom he considered as his friend, betrayed him and stole his music ideas.
The ‘Soso’ hitmaker made this known during his recent interview In his conversation with the host, Omah Lay disclosed that he shared the ideas with the unnamed colleague because they wanted to do a music project together but the artiste went behind his back to release an album with the same idea.
However, Omah Lay, who had just released his new song ‘Moving’, stating that he had to remade his album because of the incident.
In his words, “My song ‘Holy Ghost’ is a new sound. I was going to make the whole album with the new sound but along the line, I changed my mind. I shared an idea with a certain artist and the artist went ahead and put out an album with my idea and I had to re-record my album.”
“He came to me and I accepted for us to collaborate. Of course, it’s an artist that I love. And I told him where I’m headed with the sound. Five months later, he put out an album with exactly all the same sound that I shared with him.”
“I had to go back and remake my album which is actually going to be the greatest album of all time in Afrobeats history”.
His revelation sparked widespread of reactions with fans investigating whom the culprit might be. Many fingers were pointed at Nigerian singer, Victony, who happened to be Omah Lay’s close friend in the music industry.
Recall that Victony, whose real name is Anthony Ebuka Victor, recently dropped his album ‘Stubborn’ and it has been making waves online.
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Some reactions are shown below:
officialmac_david said, “Rema, buju, rugar, victony”.
deymyofficial said, “I for say Victony but rema get history of stealing laptop 😂”.
iwayyy_gram said, “When I heard “Risk” by Victony… I knew that sound belongs to Omah Lay🔥🔥😢”.
fashbrocollection said, “Na victory e dy talk. 😂😂😂”.
sharkrizlife said, “Rema or Victony 👏either of the two”.
dawave_gram said, “Why victony image Dey play for my head 😭😂😂💔”.