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.