Music is the panacea to life’s turmoil—a belief shared by fiends of melodious decibels. It is a lifeline to aching hearts and a nostalgic reminder to ageing minds. People often wonder what life would be without music, and the answers are skewed, infinitely beyond the depth of imagination, grotesquely dystopian without an iota of excitement.

This phenomenon encompassing notes, stories, fables, and elements in vibrational movement has been causative to inspirational and innovative endeavours for humanity. An emotional catalyst, a purveyor of prophecies across times and seasons. Dossiers on its influence and impact will have no end, upheld by its evergreen and escalating control over mankind.

This stronghold on the human mind is made possible by carriers, soundboxes – creators of heterogenous sounds, peculiar to their abilities, shaped by experiences, environments, desire, recognisable mastery and wielding of various musical elements and instruments.

A typical soundbox that has created a niche of defying boundaries, breaking limitations, and on a continual course of reinvention is Haywise. He is an astounding singer, irrepressibly tenacious, and consumed by a desire to etch a musical legacy through the Afrobeat blueprint.

He started this career driven by talent and ambition, through the streets of Lagos to Michigan, where his sound has been redefined by a new audience and perspective. A musical ventriloquist who walked through the slums of Lagos, aware of his role in the propagation of the Afrobeat genre, his mission as an intermediate, a soundbox, relentlessly breaking barriers to achieve feats, innately bestowed by his passion for music.

He is forging a career with the right mindset, that challenges are not limitations but stairs to a higher pedestal. Having been through different musical phases, starting as a social emancipator with his song ‘State(us)’, which described the deplorable state, societal ills and governmental corruption of the Nigerian elites, to a tranquil mind in ‘Flex’ and unreserved adulation of love in his latest single, ‘Ecstasy’. This is a panoply of a career moulded by grit, will and defiance, where music is paramount. A journey of a Soundbox evading limitations and boundaries.

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Written by Memphis.