Nigerian highlife musician, Chinedu Okoli known popularly as Flavour N’Abania, who is set to feature in a documentary has reportedly received $3M (N1.2bn) as an advance payment for his biopic on Amazon Prime Video.
However, Amazon Prime is set to kick off the production of the singer’s documentary, which makes him the first African to enjoy such an opportunity.
@Igbo Facts wrote: “Top Igbo Highlife musician, Chinedu Okoli, popularly known as Flavour N’Abania received $3M as an advance payment for his biopic on Amazon Prime Video. It makes him the first African to enjoy such largesse. Undoubtedly, this will globally open more doors for Igbo finest musicians.”
Confirming the story, a Twitter user wrote; “A Nigerian musician received $3m as an advance payment for his biopic on Amazon Prime. Guess who the musician is?”
Meanwhile, the music star is yet to announce it on any of his social media channels.
Worthy of mention, a biopic (short for “biographical picture”) is a type of motion picture that tells the life story of a non-fictional, real person.
