De Covenant is one of the fastest growing gospel groups in Nigeria today, very anointed, very energetic and passionate.
I hooked up with Lawrence Enweriku Chidi and Isaac Obiova, the founders of the De Covenant recently and they shared on how the group started and the status of gospel music in Nigeria.Isaac also shared that he is engaged and will be getting married sometime this year. Congrats in advance.
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By the grace of God, we
were led to begin, we started in 2010, by September 25, 2013,we will be
three years old. We have been singing
from childhood, we are very close family friends.
www.mytestimonys.blogspot.com: What do you think Gospel artists
need to do; there is so much difference in terms of music quality and creativity between the
gospel artists and the secular
artists?
De
Covenant; The first question we should ask the gospel
artists is are they singing because they love God or they are singing because
they want money? Most gospel artists
today are not born again, we only have a few of them that are sound, who know
what they are doing, only few can place what they do side to side with the
scripture, a lot of them just want to sing.
What is reigning now is
that gospel artists are trying to copy secular artists. Everybody is doing dancehall,
the thing is people are supposed to copy from us because music started from the
church and the guys who are doing good music secularly are from the
church. Take for instance, Terry G and
Dbanj, they started from the church but today, we see that the church wants to
copy them so we have lost it just like the scripture says, “they
only have the form of godliness but they deny the power”.
De
Covenant; Somebody once said when you have God, you have
gold, you can’t serve God and not be served.
We enjoy gospel music and I love what I do, I don’t do what I do because
of what I want to get. We are not doing
gospel music because of money, but we are doing gospel music to fulfill purpose
and destiny. The bible says, “The
husband man that laboureth shall be the first partaker of the fruit.”
If you have labored, God who has given you the vision is more than able to also
make the provision to run the vision. That
is our philosophy about life and we can tell you that The Covenant is not set
up because we want to make money. It’s
not a profit making music band, we are an outreach band called to bless people,
reach out to the unreached, the motherless and the fatherless. We know
something for sure, if we do this, we can’t lack. You can’t give and not get.
In the gospel world
today, you call a group to come and perform in your church and the first thing
they are asking you is how much you are going to pay. For me it’s funny, they say its packaging and
class. Some of them who hear what I am
saying will say I am being too spiritual, the truth is this; if you give God
all, God is more than able to make all grace abound to you,
that’s why we are shining.
The bible says, “Seek
ye first the kingdom of God and its righteousness” and everything you
need in life will just follow. That’s my philosophy.
Isaac
of De Covenant ; I am engaged and will be getting
married sometime in the year.
