EMC joins Lagos govt with Campaign Song against COVID–19

Evergreen Musical Company(EMC) on Thursday joined the Lagos State Government in its fight against CoronaVirus Pandemic.

The Managing Director,EMC, Bimbo Esho told newsmen in Lagos that the song titled ’ORIN AJUMOSE’ (SONG OF SYNERGY) was inspired by the popular Lagos State Slogan IGBEGA EKO TI DI AJUMOSE .

She said the song would be distributed to all radio and television stations across Nigeria to further sensitize the public particularly the grassroots on ways to prevent the spread of the deadly CoronaVirus .

Esho commended Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on the proactive measures taken so far in combating the dreadful disease.

Bimbo who is an anthropologist by training recalls that research studies showed the first major outbreak of a similar epidemic like Covid 19 in 1920 (100 years ago) and called Spanish influenza which resulted in the total lockdown of schools (public and private), churches, mosques, theatres and entertainment centers.

The Managing Director of the Nigeria’s largest music collector educated the people on how music has since been a powerful force used to heal the world and relieved tension during wars, epidemics, famine and austerity.

She gave an instance of the Jazz Music Icon Louis Armstrong who recorded the Evergreen Song “What a Beautiful World”1968 and dedicated to victims of Vietnam war with the hope of mending some shattered lives.

She recalled that the chart buster “ We are the world written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie in 1985 to relieve starving people in Africa, especially Ethopia where around one million people died during the country’s 1983 – 1985 famine .

According to her, In 1971 popular Nigerian juju Music Icon Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, MFR released a song about the outbreak of Cholera infection,adding that a few Nigerian indigenous musicians like Kwam 1, Ibitayo Jeje, Amo Musicals, Orits Wiliki, Esther Igbekele, Adegbodu Twins, Lanre Teriba, Edaoto, Dele Gold and Mega99, had also raised their voices in sensitising the public.

She is therefore called on other Nigerian Musicians and Musical Associations to join the force in using their music as an information dissemination to the public on the pandemic.