I didn’t plan to have kids out of wedlock – Flavour

Singer, Chinedu Okoli, aka Flavour N’abania, has said that although he is happy with his children, he never planned to have children out of wedlock.

The high-life singer has a reputation of being a “ladies man”, and he confronted that narrative in an interview with media personality, Ebuka Uchendu.

When asked if he agrees with the impression that he is a womaniser, Flavour said, “That’s people judging (me), you know. As long as you are in the public eye, you would get stuff like that.

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“It was never planned, though I cannot deny that I love beautiful women. I am an African man, not a white man. I have taste too with women. I don’t just go with anything,” he said.

However, the father of three also noted that he was aware that his career would make relations with women difficult.

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“I knew that with my job at some point, it was going to be very difficult with women”, he said.

Flavour, however, said that he is always happy whenever he sees his children. “I am very happy when I look at the kids, and I believe that is all that matters. I am so happy because I never expected everything to happen this way. When you also look at the positives, you would see happiness in it. You have to take it. This is life and you have to live it. I swallow everything and get on with it. I make myself happy,” he said.

On why he has stuck with highlife music over the years, Flavour said, “It is not about money. It is about being original. My style is highlife, RnB and contemporary jazz. I stuck with highlife because I want to be original. I want to be remembered for something.

“I am also adding culture to my sound. I want you to know I am coming from somewhere. When you hear my sound, you would think about the eastern part of Nigeria. That is my pride. That should not limit me or the way you see me. We need to celebrate all we have. People ask me if my kind of music is afrobeats. But, I tell them it is highlife,” he said.

He also criticized Award Organisers for not acknowledging highlife music and opined that the African music landscape should not limit itself to afrobeat, which is what has popularized African music.

“Why are there no awards with categories like ‘Best Highlife Song’, and ‘Best Fuji Song’. Why is everything about afrobeats? We are limiting ourselves. Afrobeats is great but there is more to Africa than that. We don’t need other people to bring it out for us. Is it until a former US President, Barack Obama, or Beyonce tell us they love high-life music? We can start it from here.”