Music As A Passion And As A Source Of Income
Music is a powerful force that is actually known in every part of the world. Music has the ability to translate and changes a lot of things in our world. To a very great instance, we have actually known some and to a very great extent, we didn't make proper use of it yet. When it comes to the world of music, it has the ability to change language, culture and a lot. When you come to a country like nigeria, you will noticed that music is in the heart of a lot of Nigerians.
For some people, they see music as their main passion that helps gives them joy, healing and lots more. They see it as part of their lifestyle because they see music as their life. And for other people, they see music beyond passion, they see it as their major source of income in which their livelihood depends on it. In fact, on several occasions in which music has created financial independence to lots of people in our society.
As a little child, when I was still growing up, i only see music as a source of joy, passion and generally the way of life. In fact, i see music been performed in programs, festivals, even in my church as choir. For us, we see music beyond just been an hobby, it is our way of life and we dedicate our live to it. But as we grow and as we continue to develop in technology and gain more knowledge, we discover that there is another dimension to music and that is possibility to make money from it.
In fact, I will say currently now, music has turned to business and is drifting away from the way we see music decades ago. Our music celebrities most especially in Nigeria like Davido, like WizKid and many more have shown us that if you put in the necessary hardwork to your music career and at the end of the day, you get successful, it will draw massive financial gain for you.
A time past, I was doing research on how much musicians charge in my country, some collect hundreds of millions. Some rank as high as $100,000 per show. That is really outrageous. Even beyond the singer itself, other people have benefited from the music industry for financial gain. I am talking about examples like the managers who help to manage the affairs of those musicians, there is also the producers who helped to produce the song projects and many more. All of these people benefit from music not necessarily as a passion but as a source of income for them.
Recently now, there have been lots of music platforms that have risen up. I am talking about YouTube, talking about Spotify, talking about audiomack. All of these platforms have always created avenue for musicians to earn massively from their songs. You don't necessarily need to big as those Burnaboy, Davido or WizKid. Even as low as having 50,000 fans, you can still make major source of income for your music.
At the end of the day, music can be seen as a way of passion and can be seen as source of income. Everything point down to perspective. For some people, they only see music as the source of income and for some people, they see it beyond the money it offers, but the passion, joy it gives to them.