Elder brother of late Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson is in Lagos for a Jazz concert being hosted by the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode. The older Jackson confirmed his readiness to participate in the concert.
The concert is being held to commemorate the international Jazz day 2016. Mr. Jackson also expressed willingness to support the local and up and coming musical acts in Nigeria.
He also revealed plans to establish a music academy in Nigeria to nurture and prepare the talents in Africa for global market. This was all part of activities for the Jackson Golden Africa Tour.
He said “It’s been 50 years for the Jacksons and we are bringing a team together of people who can produce a concert. I like coming here because I have a lot of questions. I was just in China and I learnt that the first dynasty that started in China came from Africa here and I had a professor in China to tell me this. That made me very proud and the world needs to know this because in our history books in America, they don’t put this there; they don’t want us to know this but when you travel and you have the opportunity to see things for yourself, you will realize that the history books were written by someone else and it is their version and their interpretation of what happened which is usually not the truth.”
“We are going to give you nice compilation of songs that you know and I am just very honoured to be here because we have been kept away from you because of the politics and we are not interested in such politics because we are people who care about people. We need to have a closer relationship with African-American and the rest of Africa because we have been separated for long and we can reach out to do other things.
“There are lots of great talents here and we want to use our 50 years experience of being in the business to teach the arts. We have in our plans to establish Jackson Academy Performing Art School and the school will have a curriculum and also will teach music, directing, film, lightening, producing, dancing and so on. We want to get the talents here ready for the global market and I do believe that the drums and the beat started from here,”
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