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  • Pasuma storms Osogbo

    Regal Dry Gin ambassador and Nigeria’s foremost Fuji musician, Alhaji Wasiu Alabi, popularly known as Pasuma will perforrm at the grand finale of the annual Osun Osogbo festival on Friday, August 23.

    Brand Manager, Regal Dry Gin, Olufemi Falomo, assured visitors that the festival would be a memorable one. He said that Regal Dry Gin plans to mark its presence at this year’s Osun Osogbo festival with Pasuma as part of the brand’s effort to tap into the blessings of Osun Osogbo and to connect with the good people of Osogbo during the festival.

    Falomo said Pasuma has always performed at the annual Fuji slam sponsored by the brand as a way of rewarding loyal customers and giving them the opportunity to feel the brand since Regal Dry Gin is all about excitement and enjoyment.

    Pasuma promised to thrill the crowd with his performance. “My fans really believe in the brand and I am happy to be working with Regal Dry Gin because of consumer’s love for the product. This Saturday promises to be good show in Ikorodu,” he said.

    Pasuma’s Band Manager, Afolabi Oyekoya said that there exist a good working relationship with Regal Dry Gin and the band looks forward to many years of collaboration.

  • Pasuma thrills at Fuji Slam

    Pasuma thrills at Fuji Slam

    FROM the stable of Grand Oak Limited, Regal Gin brings Fuji Slam, as Alhaji Alabi Pasuma entertains consumers of the brand to the best of live Fuji Music in this year’s Fuji Slam.

    Held at New Afrika Shrine, Lagos, the audience was entertained with lots of Fuji Music by different artistes before Alabi Pasuma mounted the stage.

    Category Manager of Grand Oak Limited, Mr. Abiodun Ayodeji said Regal Fuji Slam is the brand’s way of rewarding loyal consumers while at the same time entrenching Regal Dry Gin with the core target consumers.

    “If you look at the South West part of the country you will find out that they love music and the kind of music they love is Fuji hence, we latch on this as a platform to promote the brand. Regal Dry Gin has been in the forefront of promoting indigenous musical forms and entertainment programmes in the media,” he said.

    Ayodeji added that currently, Regal Dry Gin sponsors Lagbo Regal on 14 radio stations across the South West because of the love people in this part of the country have for Fuji Music.

    Brand Manager, Olufemi Falomo, say that the brand has always communicated on the platform of enjoyment and satisfaction in close conjunction with Fuji Music. “Thea event serves as a platform for brand to bond with her consumers. It is the link between the brand and the consumers where people can actually come together and interact,” he said.

  • K1 vs Pasuma: Ripples in fuji music scene

    K1 vs Pasuma: Ripples in fuji music scene

    LOVERS of fuji music across the world are in suspense over the reported sour relationship between King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal (K1) and his younger member of the Arabambi musical family, Otunba Wasiu Alabi aka Pasuma.

    The music scene was shaken to its foundation when days back, Pasuma released into the market, an audio CD entitled, ‘Oga Nla’ in which he vehemently denounced the Arabambi family where he had held the title, Arabambi 2.

    In the CD, copies of which are still being circulated, Pasuma minced no word in maintaining that he was no longer a member of the Arabambi family under K1’s leadership.

    “Don’t call me Arabambi 2 any longer; I am no longer a member of the Arabambi family. Henceforth, call me Oga Nla; that is my own family,” he emphasised in the album.

    He went further to clarify: “Many may think that I am fighting with K1 or K1 is fighting with me, there is nothing like that. There is nothing like disagreement between us. It is just that I felt I needed to belong to my own family. So, our fans should not read any meaning to the development.”

    However, despite his painstaking explanations in the CD, keen watchers of the development are not convinced as fans in particular, continue to ask questions such as: What could have suddenly happened between father and his son? For years, both K1 and Pasuma have remained together against opponents in the genre. What has now turned them against each other?

    A fuji music fan told The Nation in the week: “Pasuma has not told us the whole truth about what is happening. It is hard to believe that he can just turn his back on K1 like that because they have been together in the industry. You would hardly hear K1 sing the praise of any musician without first mentioning Pasuma. I know in the course of time, the truth will come to the open.”

    In most entertainment and even liquor joints, such unanswered questions have kept lips busy as many continue to wonder if Pasuma would hold his own without affiliation with K1, his perceived pillar in the industry.

    However, K1 in his response to the development, simply said: “I have nothing against Pasuma because he is old enough to take any decision”.