Nigerian singer Chimamanda Pearl Chukwuma, popularly known as Qing Madi, has said the music industry is as lucrative as “drug” business.
In a recent episode of the Tea With Tay podcast, Qing Madi stated that a single performance can earn an artist what the ordinary Nigerian worker makes in a year or years.
The 19-year-old claimed that music has made her financially independent, but she doesn’t show off her fortune online because she doesn’t want it to define who she is.
“Music money is not normal, it is like drug money. I don’t think people know how… And I’m not the person who would buy stuff and put on the media because I do think that that would change the narrative of what I am to the media. And I don’t like people looking at me and seeing money. But I am rich.
“The average Nigerian works 9-5 and earns maybe N500,000 at the end of the month, while as an artist, you do one show and get N20 million. Music money is huge,” she said.
Qing Madi further added that she believes the reason Nigerians love music could be due to the limited access to therapy in the country, stressing that a lot of people rely on music for therapy and escapism.
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