There wasn’t anyone around me who influenced me or this sound. I was really just interested in ‘80s pop music at that

time because I was revisiting some Nigerian classics and some TV shows that had dropped at that time. I found out Chris

Okotie used to make pop music, and the quality of the music was great. There was William Onyeabor as well. It was nice

to see people who experimented with synth music who were from where I’m from and looked like me. Making “falling” made

me realise what the project was supposed to sound like. I teased it the night I made it, the video is still somewhere on

my Twitter (X), and from the response I got, I was sure that this sound was where I wanted to go. I was able to

communicate as naturally as I could, but it still had all the elements I liked.