Nigerian singer, songwriter and musician, Ikechukwu Eric Ahiauzu better known as Ric Hassani joined the WUN crew for an exclusive chat. Ric talked about his music career, the entertainment industry at large and new projects he is working on.
What’s been going on with Ric?
The thing about me is that I don’t get soaked in by the job, I like being a person. You know sometimes you are soaked into the job that you only know how to be a product to people, and you forget yourself.
I think I am very big at living, I am very good at living my life and I don’t get soaked in.
Who Would You describe Ric Hassani As?
Ric Hassani is an incredible human being, he is a very great man and a good man, he is very obsessed with living a very good life by his own standards not people’s standards and he is very concerned about being there for people. I love being there for people.
What do you think people think about you?
I really don’t know. I think people think I am a very very quiet person which is kind of true sometimes. I am a reserved and quiet guy but I am not as reserved as people think.
Your transition into another genre from what most people know you for, was there a reason?
I have obviously never tried to appeal to anybody, I just try to let people know what I would like them to know and feel through my music. I am a creator, an inventor so a creator decides what he wants people to want and create it and gives them. A creator does not ask people what they want people they create them.
So the way I create is, I create, I don’t ask people what they want, I give them what they should need.
Do you think people have come to like the new you and accept the new you?
I am still getting booked. People understand the way I create. they understand and agree with the way I create. They are artists that people expect what they want to expect from the artist and they some are artists that want what the artist wants from them.
I think I am one of the latter artists, they will wait and be like, what doe Ric want us to feel now, does he want us to feel pained, heartbreak or happy?
Your song ‘Thunder Fire You’ what were you going through when you wrote that song?
To be honest, I wrote that year two years before it came out. I was not really in pain again anymore. You know when something happens and you just want to laugh about it so you just make a joke out of it.
At that moment it’s very people but when you tell it, you want to laugh about it, that was the mood I was in when I wrote that song.
One day I was singing it when we were recording my album, and my engineer was like, you should record that song it’s incredible.
How was the backlash after the realises of the song make you feel?
At first, I was really shocked because I felt and I still believe, that song is genius. Nobody can make a tune that nice out of a word so cras.
I really thought I was going to be unanimously praised for making such an incredible song because nobody has ever done it, I don’t think any other person will.
So when I got the backlash I was like, really how don’t you guys think this is clever? Everybody says thunder fire you for years and then somebody made a song about this? Like, why ain’t you guys happy about this?
Truthfully, I got more praise than backlash and then it got sanctioned on the radio by NBC.
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