Timaya’s Back-home Fiesta: The Trickle Down Effect
Enideneze Etete, writes this piece Timaya’s Back-home Fiesta: The Trickle Down Effect
Budden talents in Bayelsa, have got opportunity to do their acts on the large platform provided by Timaya’s Day in Yenagoa, projecting them to national and global reckoning.
From the debut edition at the Oxbow Lake Pavilion, to the second one at the Sampson Siasia Stadium and the third edition of January 1, 2026, at same venue, the Dope Dance Nation (DDN), boys from Yenagoa City, precisely from Agudama-Epie, have had the privilege of doing their energetic moves on Timaya’s home-coming stage.
Timaya in his youthful times, during the early years of Bayelsa State, feelers seem to indicate, had a connection with Agudama-Epie, where he and friends did service jobs on construction sites to make ends meet.
Those survival experiences may have been part of the eponymous Plantain Seller story hit-track, and Dem Mama Soldier song he released soon after then, tracks which jump-started him to fame.
Some of his friends in Agudama-Epie and Yenagoa have wondered I couldn’t recall that Ndutimi used to be their pal those days. Success has many friends 😁.
His annual back-home concert in Yenagoa, will surely bring back those memories; and of how he started at home; and will also continue to provide a viable platform for young entertainers, to showcase their talents, and grow to stardom, albeit, with time.
Timaya, Egberi Papa crooner does some of the most meaningful, danceable and evergreen music, in an era message is waning in music.
I love his music, same as Timi Dakolo’s meaningful and enduring music.
Bayelsa is blessed to have these greats, and they need to be supported more and more by our people.
