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Sir Victor Uwaifo: As early as 12 years old, way back in Benin here, I started playing guitar, based on Latin-American Spanish type of music. I grew up in an era where the gramophone was the in thing. Gramophone is a kind of device that you just wind and you release it and it starts playing. I still have one there that I will demonstrate; if you had a gramophone, you are a big man. You had a gas light to go with it, oh, you are extra big! So if the gramophone was playing in my house, my father had many types of records but especially when he played the GV records, those were the ones that appealed to me because they were mostly guitar.

I constructed my own guitar using plywood and using bicycle spokes for the frets, and traps for the strings, and a sardine opener for the tuning pegs. I was doing pretty well, and after a year I went downtown by a palm wine bar, and I wanted to play their guitar. It was difficult because I tuned to my own taste, it was like the Hawaiian style, do, re, mi, do, sol, mi, do, whereas theirs was the Spanish style, which is EBGDAE. So, they promised they would teach me their own style if I bought them a glass of palm wine, and I did. So from then I started experiencing new styles. And then I later on I bought a book, some rudiments of guitar.

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No, no, no, there's no Ghanaian influence in my music at all. But I listened to E.T. Mensah when I was young, because he was much older and used to come to Benin. In fact artists in Ghana looked up to me, instead of looking up to them. The only guy that I thought was also a good guitarist, was somebody Taylor. Ebo Taylor. I don't know if he plays palm wine, but his solos were quite jazzy in those days. Otherwise, I came up with a different style that was unique to me. If I hold an electric guitar now, and there's a band it's a different thing entirely, because I have a rhythmic guitar, a keyboard and bass guitar. To listen to my "Ekassa" series, you will now hear a lot of gimmicks in my style. I play a wide range of guitar, and my style is quite different.

Even in those days in the band that I played, musicians, especially guitarist, you're supposed to be at the background, but I came with the solo and I decided to lead the band with the guitar. You'd either be a trumpeter, or a saxophonist, you had to be a horn man, to be able to lead the band. But I just thought these people cannot actually play a polyphonic instrument, so why should they lead? Do they know the kind of chordal sound of music? Progressions, modulations, syncopation? Because the nearest to guitar is the piano, but piano has about 172 strings, but the guitar has six strings and can do the same thing! That's phenomenal! So the guitar has its own place, and it's portable. I was happy that I play the guitar and I'm still playing it.

No, those people were just local. No, they were very different, different completely. In fact it was just like day and night. The type of music that I was attuned to, that my ears were attuned to was just like the day, the light. The other ones, I didn't want to hear them, because they were just like the night, dark, they didn't have form, they were just vamping and playing. There were some local musicians, but not the guitar.

Sir Victor Uwaifo does not only plays the guitar with his fingers, which is normal, but also with his jaw, his toes, his teeth, from behind his neck and back which are unusual, then, he spins the guitar 360 degrees suspending in the air with amazing speed faster than sound in a phenomenon.

My brother was a church organist and a lawyer too; he taught me the rudiments of music. I had to learn the rudiments of music. Like when bands will come from Ghana to play in Benin, bands like E.T Mensah, we go and watch the band from beginning to the end. I was mimicking the television style and different kinds of music with my guitar. The whole thing revolved around practice; there was more practice than perspiration.

It got to a point, my father was not comfortable with my guitar. At that time, guitarists or musicians were not people to actually reckon with, because they end up in the palm wine bar and go into womanising and all that. But I have a vision. My mother had to save my guitar when my father seized it and I promised that I would read my books. So, I got my guitar back until I gained entrance into a secondary school; I still have primary school result of 1955.

He packed so much in those 80 years segueing seamlessly from one professional calling to another. How else can you explain the many roles he played in real life? He started playing the guitar at 12, self-taught, presumably. By the time he became a professional highlife artiste, Nigerians could not but notice that, for real, a star had arrived on stage along with other reigning musicians of his time.

The last is both famous not only for his masterful display but the circumstances surrounding it. Uwaifo has repeated it in interviews how the muse came to him on one quiet visit to the Bar Beach way back. According to him, he took time off work as a graphic artist at the time to visit the beach. It was while there that the muse for that number called unexpectedly as a mermaid or Mammy Water. She did not only inspire the song, she also presented him with a guitar and that was it. 2351a5e196