Following the release of the epic AfroPop Jazz / AfroBeats / R&B / Hip Hop fusion album titled African Royalty by Daddy Jiggy, we set out to delve deep into the technologically creative mind of this modern African music master. Daddy Jiggy disclosed to us that to be a master at any musical art, it takes decades of intense research and disciplined artistry development.
According to this highly charismatic, energetic and creative personality by the name of Daddy Jiggy, the journey towards music mastery has been a long meandering one, often fraught with challenges and failures leading up to the eventual successes that result into masterpieces. A true master, Daddy Jiggy floats effortlessly between different computer based systems of Digital Audio Workstations using the same software and modern tools employed by the top of the crop music industry creatives from the expensive music studios of Larabee Studios in California to the top of the line music studios in the Middle East countries of Dubai down to the blossoming highly creative home studios prevalent in the Lagos metropolitan and all around the world.
While in the studio observing the process of making his Afro Pop Jazz / AfroBeats style of music, it is indeed magical to watch the dexterity with which Daddy Jiggy proficiently turns and twists the knobs of each of the different music equipment on ground in the recording studio. He delightfully speaks highly of different analog equipment as well as the digital emulations of nostalgic analog equipment with such a breathtaking grasp of the knowledge base that one would surmise that this is a highly intelligent and gifted music genius that can easily be a working professor at any world class College or University's Music Technology Department.
Whereas the current crop of artists globally known in the AfroBeats/ AfroPop/ AfroFusion genre solely relies on different professionals to do everything other than singing or rapping for them, Daddy Jiggy single handedly performs the songwriting, lyrics write ups, music composing, beats creating, recording, mixing and mastering single handledly in his facility Paradise Studios, that formerly was based in Allen Avenue, Lagos but is now headquartered in the East Coast of the USA.
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