‘Music money is like drug money’ – Qing Madi

Nigerian vocalist Chimamanda Pearl Chukwuma, popularly known arsenic Qing Madi, has said the euphony manufacture is arsenic lucrative arsenic “drug” business.

Speaking successful a caller occurrence of the Tea With Tay podcast, Madi said an creator tin marque what the mean Nigerian worker earns successful a twelvemonth oregon years from a azygous show.

The 19-year-old said euphony has fixed her fiscal freedom, but she doesn’t flaunt her wealthiness online due to the fact that she doesn’t privation it to go her persona.

“Music wealth is not normal, it is similar cause money. I don’t deliberation radical cognize how… And I’m not the idiosyncratic who would bargain worldly and enactment connected the media due to the fact that I bash deliberation that that would alteration the communicative of what I americium to the media. And I don’t similar radical looking astatine maine and seeing money. But I americium rich.

“The mean Nigerian works 9-5 and earns possibly N500,000 astatine the extremity of the month, portion arsenic an artist, you bash 1 amusement and get N20 million. Music wealth is huge,” she said.

Madi said she believes the crushed Nigerians emotion euphony could beryllium owed to the constricted entree to therapy successful the country, stressing that a batch of radical trust connected euphony for therapy and escapism.

‘Music wealth is similar cause money’ – Qing Madi