Nigerian singer Oluwakayode Junior Balogun, a.k.a Barry Jhay, son of late Fuji music maestro, Sikiru Ayinde ‘Barrister’ has said that choosing music as a career was never his plan.

He said he always weep whenever his late father told him he was going to be a musician, because he was scared of the African music industry.

In a recent interview, Barry Jhay noted that his fear was informed by his perception that African musicians use voodoo against each other.

He said,

“My late dad used to tell me that I would become a musician but I used to cry whenever he said so; but I’ve been recording since the age of five.

“Africans use black power while they are doing their music; some of them when their colleagues go for performance, they would use black power to do some stuff that I don’t understand. They make them vomit blood or render their spine useless.

“So, when my dad used to me that I’d do music, I used to say no because I have my special gift and talent. I told him I couldn’t get involved in black power. It was after my dad died I realized I had no choice but to do music, because I couldn’t let his name die just like that. Before he died he told me that if I don’t do music I may not survive.”

Explaining why he didn’t take his education to the university level despite being privileged,

Barry Jhay said,

“All I know in my life is music; I cannot read any other thing. I told my mom and dad, I told everybody that the only thing I can read is music production and sound engineering. As at that time, I never knew music was what was going to feed me; but thank God, I’m improving.”