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Just Believe You Can Do It - TobianoAce

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Smiles worthy of appreciable notice were posted on his lips at regular intervals as we talked about his personal and academic life, as well as his musical career. He shared with me generously. Read the handsome young man whose stage name rings a bell in the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, Nigeria. He is TobianoAce. Everyone wants to know who TobianoAce is. I am Morakinyo OluwaTobiloba. TobianoAce is my stage name. My hometown is Oke Imesi in Ekiti state. I was born in Ibadan, Oyo State. I had my primary and secondary education at Shama Nursery and Primary School, and Baptist Grammar School Idi-Ishin, Ibadan. Presently, I am a Part Two student of the Department of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University, where I am studying Literature-in-English. How did you feel when you realised that you had been granted admission to study Literature-In-English in Obafemi Awolowo University? Wow! I was very happy because it is not easy to gain admi...

Sonorous, mellifluous, wondrous

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 My opinion of music is high. What about you? I find time for great ones and they appeal to my whole body as though a series of love potions has been administered to me and they lure me easily into more fulfilling encounters without ceasing. The truth is, beautiful musical compositions consist of natural, innocent, guilty rhythms that touch the heart marvelously with melody and corrupt the soul so intensely with goodness. They are concrete abstractions one is made to make out of one's feelings, as if they were sweet dreams, to be constructed and delivered by endowed minds and voices in lines and rhymes and tempo with content based, exceedingly riveting, extraordinarily gripping, hugely relevant and largely appreciable words transmitted orally or written to humanity through generations to affect lives mainly positively.           Spell binding musical presentations are powerfully, profoundly and remarkably revealing. ...