9ice Addresses ‘Cracked Voice’ Says Age Has A Lot To Do With It

At the same media briefing announcing the return of ID Cabasa’s Coded Tunes imprint and the sponsored Coded Tunes Reunion Concert, 9ice who graced the event with his presence addressed one of the issues that have lingered concerning his music career.

Without mincing words, the singer opened up on his seemingly ‘cracked voice’ which he attributed to age. “At the time we were recording my first album I think was 23, 24 compare it to when someone is 35 years old. You can see the development in the physical body and every other thing. You can see that the voice is sexier now (laughs). So age has a whole lot of thing to do about that. And aside from that, that’s another thing that Coded Tunes always pays attention to. For this reunion concert, from the person playing the guitar to the Conga to the drummer they are all Coded Tunes. The reason is this we take precaution on everything we want to do. Most times when you go to all these concerts, the equipment, the mic, sounds are not right. You will be on top of your voice and screaming, imagine someone doing that for like five years. After the release of Gongo Aso, I was doing shows back-to-back for almost five years so there is tendency to lose your voice, to get the voice cracked up and all that. So it’s possible. Thank you”.

ID Cabasa corroborating 9ice’s claim said,” I could remember asking him to rest his voice. I could remember those days. Some days we go three, four shows. And sometimes you get to play with a live band; you will do your song on a particular key, they will play it for you on another key. You guys should watch out for some of the new songs that we are doing. We’d loved to play some of them for you to just listen to. We are not going to give excuses. We will try to make sure you guys get value for whatever you expect from 9ice. But also, beyond the voice if there is any artiste that I respect his writing skill in Nigeria I think it will be 9ice. As his maturing, his lyrics are maturing. There is no doubt 9ice still got it, said Cabasa.