MUSIC: Yahooze Crooner, Olu maintain Releases New Single

After a long hiatus Olumide Edwards Adegbolu, popularly known as Olu Maintain is back with a new single. The new single it has been argued will launch the ‘Yahooze’ crooner back to mainstream music especially with Olu having 2face on the single. ‘Cinderella’ is a fusion of highlife with pop. Both 2face and Olu Maintain did justice to the song according to music critics which they thought will make the single top music charts in a short time after its release. Olu Maintain Cinderella Art, ‘Cinderella’ took us
down memory lane by sampling with great classic Nigerian Music. Olu samples with ‘Eddie Quansa’ by the Peacock’s Guitar Band, the sound track of the 90s popular sitcom, The New Masquerade, and interpose it with lyrics from legendary Nigerian Highlife Maestro, Sir Victor Uwaifo’s classic ‘Mami Water’.The single is Kenny Wonder’s production. Music pundits claim the song will resonate with older fans of Nigerian Music.The Yahooze crooner is said to be presently down financially with his landlord asking him to evacuate his apartment since he has not been able to pay his rents.The singer who lives on Akin Osiyemi street,Off Allen Avenue Ikeja, Lagos would have been thrown out of the apartment by uniform men if not for the timely intervention of a good neighbour.Olu Maintain’s career started in 1997 with a group called Maintain. The group was made up of Olu and Tolu, his cousin but the group split with both members going their different ways.