Recognize input of Fela, Sunday Ade, others – Patrick Doyle tells Burna Boy

Grace Omachoko

Veteran actor Patrick Doyle opined that Grammy-winning artist Burna Boy has done nothing that can be characterized as brilliant on his own.

Doyle in a post on his Facebook page stated that Burna and other artists need to respect and be humble to great predecessors who have created the pathway they are threading.

He noted that the feats that appear to be inflating up the likes of Burna Boy should be properly attributed to great singers like Fela, Sunny Ade, Majek Fasek, and others who paved the road for the likes of Burna Boy and others to stroll through smoothly.

According to him, “The credit for the feats that appear to be puffing the likes of Burna Boy up have to be properly ascribed to the greats who cleared the thorny paths that have created pathways for his likes to walk through practically effortlessly.

“Burna Boy has not by himself done anything that can be remotely described as great. He and his peers are recipients of the labours of heroes past. They need to be humble and respectful of their diligent and truly pioneering predecessors. Great artistes like SunnyAde, Fela Anikulapo, Majek Fashek, I, k. Dairo and a galaxy of others who paved the way from the 60s, to the 2000s. Greatness and great feats don’t exist in a vacuum. Let us not contribute to the creation of an arrogant and obnoxious monster.” he wrote