SAN FRANCISCO, June 19, (THEWILL) – Charles Oputa aka Charly Boy, one of Nigeria’s veteran recording artistes, has stated that his father, the late former Supreme Court Justice, Chukwudifu Oputa, opposed his journey to the music industry.
He stated this during a chat with NAN on Friday, saying that his music career started in 1982 after he took a trip to his village.
He said: “My break came around 1982 when, as the then chief justice of Imo, my late father who was strongly opposed to my career choice as a musician, was appointed a supreme court judge.
“I left Owerri and went back to my village, Oguta, where I started the Charly Boy brand right there in the village. This was three years after completing the compulsory NYSC programme in 1979.
“My wife and I designed a brand that will remain youthful, a brand that is meant to shock conventional Nigerians out of their ways of thinking.
“The brand started way back in 1983 and since then it has been tenacious, consistent, and audacious in challenging what is wrong in our society.
“In the beginning, my children were getting a little bit confused because the father they know in the house is different from the father people are talking about outside.
“My children are my friends and we always talk and I was able to explain to them. With time, they were able to come to terms with the brand Charly Boy and their father, Charles Oputa.”
