To the average Nigerian music listener in Nigeria, shedding an emotional burden on wax is synonymous with making music for those who are losing it. The younger audience, especially, gives the music a distinctive, morose name like Afro-depression quicker than the artist can say what actually inspires their tracks. Before they know it, they’ve become a spokesperson for the listener’s existential crises.
This is the box Lucid, a 22-year-old singer from Abuja born Victor Barnabas Nanribetmun, has found…