{"id":65899,"date":"2025-05-17T15:13:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T15:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65899"},"modified":"2025-05-17T15:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T15:13:33","slug":"bigiano-regrets-saying-no-to-don-jazzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/17\/bigiano-regrets-saying-no-to-don-jazzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigiano Regrets Saying No to Don Jazzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian singer Babalola Oluwagbemiga Gabriel, popularly known as Bigiano, has admitted that turning down Don Jazzy\u2019s offer to join Mo\u2019Hits Records remains the biggest regret of his music career.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview on Cool FM, the <em>Shayo<\/em> crooner revealed that the offer came at the peak of his fame in 2010, when D\u2019banj introduced him to Don Jazzy. Despite the golden opportunity, Bigiano said he declined, believing that joining the label might limit his independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon Jazzy asked me, do you want to join Mo\u2019Hits? Instead of me saying yes, the little mind that felt he had arrived said no,\u201d he confessed.<\/p>\n<p>Bigiano reflected on how the industry was changing at the time, especially with Wande Coal\u2019s <em>Mushin 2 Mo\u2019Hits<\/em> album dominating the airwaves. \u201cWhen the album came out, I said to myself, I now have the biggest competitor. I was asking myself how to tackle that level of talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that the decision has haunted him ever since. \u201cIf I could rewind time, I would go back and say yes three times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer, who has struggled to reclaim his past glory, believes joining Mo\u2019Hits would have changed the trajectory of his career significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Nigerian singer Babalola Oluwagbemiga Gabriel, popularly known as Bigiano, has admitted that turning down Don Jazzy\u2019s offer to join Mo\u2019Hits Records remains the biggest regret of his music career. Speaking during an interview on Cool FM, the Shayo crooner revealed that the offer came at the peak of his fame in 2010, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65901,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65899\/revisions\/65901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}