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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