Words:Adedosu 'kenzy' Adekunle
We all think they are going to stay stronger like the America RnB singers "Boys2Men" or like the their other colleagues such as "Xproject" and "Artquake".
But after rigourous working for nine years as an R&B group –The sophomore group STYL Plus will be saying goodbye to one of its founding members Tunde Akinsanmi.
Over the week, the news of Tunde
leaving to pursue a solo career hit the social media. The group who has now voice out, says Tunde might be leaving, but STYL Plus is not ‘breaking up’.
‘We owe it to our fans to clear the
air on this matter. In the process of working towards a collective
vision, in this vein, Tunde Akinsanmi has decided to pursue a solo
career and delve into other ventures that are not Styl-Plus’s priority
at the moment‘, a rep for the group and One Management said in a statement.
The statement which further goes, says the group’s musical projects will go on as usual: Shifi and Zeal say they’ll be releasing a new single titled ‘Tonight’ (Ale-Oni) in the coming weeks.They are also warming up to release new singles produced by the likes of Wizboyy, TK and Landlord.
STYL Plus launched into the mainstream back in 2003 but their musical journey started way long before then; the group was originally formed in the ’90s by Shifi Emoefe, Tunde Akinsanmi, Yemi Akinwonmi, and Lanre Faneyi giving birth to the initial name STYL.
In 1999, Faneyi passed away. A young singer Zeal Onyecheme replaced him; re-branding the group’s name to STYL Plus.
In 2003, the group released their first set of singles – ‘Olufunmi' and ‘Runaway’ which remain evergreen. In 2006, they released their first studio album ‘Expressions‘, which included the hits – ‘Imagine that‘, ‘Always on my mind‘, ‘Drive me crazy‘, and ‘Iya Basira‘.
Going on a small hiatus, they returned in 2008 with the club hit ‘Four years’ off their ‘Back and Better‘ album.
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