Derek San Vicente, popularly generally known as DJ Energy, a global disc jockey and music producer, has collaborated with Nigerian artists to drive local weather change consciousness and creation of progressive and genre-defying tracks that remember Afrobeat.
The partnership additionally flagged off DJ Energy, African tour, which is ready to start in Nigeria and promoted by BAROQUE Works Studios.
DJ Energy says he acknowledges Nigeria’s pivotal function in shaping the worldwide music panorama and is keen to personally discover the nation’s dwell music tradition and set up significant collaboration with Nigerian music stars.
“I firmly imagine within the unifying energy of music and am honoured to work alongside Nigerian artists to create progressive and genre-defying tracks that remember Afrobeat,” he mentioned.
In keeping with him, his dedication to celebrating African music and his ardour for Afrobeat will undoubtedly end in exceptional collaborations and unforgettable musical moments.
“It’s worthy of notice to tell this August gathering that all of us have a accountability to preserve our surroundings and mitigate the impression of greenhouse gases on our ecosystem.”
Monica Eimunjeze, govt director, BAROQUE Works Studios, and official promoter of DJ Energy in Nigeria and throughout Africa, mentioned the music and inventive trade has a big footprint globally and something it focuses on tends to work.
“If we are able to get the youth to know that they should key in and be sure that their planet is protected, utilizing a medium that they imagine in – music and different artistic platforms,” she mentioned.
“We have to educate the younger ones on easy issues that you simply won’t essentially know have an effect in tackling local weather change. The impression of local weather change is actual and we should drive its consciousness.”
Talking on the tour, Eimunjeze mentioned that the tour is anticipated to not solely entertain but in addition foster cultural change and collaboration between native and worldwide artists.
She mentioned that the disc jockey would embark on an African tour, with Nigeria being one of many key locations, describing the DJ as a cultivated world musical circus that displays the various nature of his work.
Talking additionally, Prosper Egeonu, DJ Powers Africa supervisor mentioned local weather change is without doubt one of the largest world crises, including that flooding and drought have intensified owing to the impression of local weather change.
“We’re all local weather advocates as a result of we need to attempt to save mom earth and that is a part of the issues that’s key to our coronary heart that’s the method we’re giving again to the world,” Egeonu who can also be the founder and CEO of Keter Africa Power Restricted mentioned.
“We try to guard mom earth utilizing the leisure trade. We have now come collectively as local weather advocates and we’re going inexperienced, so we determined to marketing campaign creating an #Rocktheclimate,” he mentioned.
He mentioned the partnership needs to focus extra on bringing options. “This may make folks start to begin to know easy methods to clear up the issue of local weather change, and scale back our carbon footprints.”
