If there is anyone who prays fervently for the reunion of former buddies and business partners, Don Jazzy and D’Banj, it is the award-winning songstress Tiwa Savage.
Tiwa,
 Mavin Records’ first lady, said somewhere at the back of her mind, she 
prays that the two music luminaries and founders of defunct Mo’Hits 
Records should come back together.
“I am still in shock and when I listen to songs like Suddenly, I am like is
 this really happening? And I feel like they have left a void in the 
music industry in Nigeria and in Africa,” Tiwa said in a special feature
 on her in the latest edition of StyleMania magazine.
The songstress said she could not really point to what caused the rift between the two friends beyond different news reports she read in the media.
Tiwa,
 however, admitted that in line with some people’s perception of Don 
Jazzy,  the super producer is indeed a “mysterious” guy.
“I’ll
 tell you the honest truth about Don Jazzy…he really is like that. He 
doesn’t really open his heart easily to people. He just accepts what 
happens and he moves on. I mean he is the Don, so I can’t go up to him 
and say ‘Jazzy, what really happened. I just keep my mouth shut,” she said.
In the interview, Tiwa defended the open show of sensitive body parts in her video which has attracted a lot of flaks.
“You
 know a lot of people say that in Africa we don’t like to expose 
ourselves and that is actually a big lie because if you check the 
history of Africa, we were actually very exposed. So I think it is quite
 ironic because people think that the western world is influencing us 
whereas we are the ones influencing the western world,” Tiwa argued.
Tiwa
 emerged a surprise signee of Don Jazzy’s new project, Mavin Records in 
May 2012 after the demise of Mo’Hits Records label. The old Mo’Hits Crew
 had as members D’Banj, Wande Coal, Dr. SID, D’Prince and KSwitch.
But
 after the break-up, D’Banj left with his younger brother, KSwitch, to 
float his DKM Records label, while the rest of the crew teamed up with 
Don Jazzy, with Tiwa coming as a wonderful addition to the family. She 
later contributed a hit track O Ma Ga to Mavin Crew’s debut mixtape, 
Solar Plexus.
And
 after a year, 26 May to be precise, Tiwa unleashed her 21-track debut 
LP comprising different genres, from gospel to Afrobeat and Techno.
 
 

 
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