How COVID-19 impacted my music – FerbTheKing

By Taiwo Okanlawon

Fast-rising Nigerian rapper and songwriter Dickson Marcus, popularly known as FerbTheKing has reflected on how the COVID-19 lockdown contributed positively to his music career.

FerbTheKing who is also an undergraduate student of Rivers State University of Science and Technology said the lockdown made him and everybody around him exposed to a new way of life, new perceptions, and new ideas which made him restrategized.

According to him, Many artists like me found it hard to cope with, and also as a student but “we improvised, and we made use of the new life.”

“Nobody could have predicted that everything could change like that, our worlds have changed, and we have to change the way we engage with it, and with our colleagues and audiences.

FerbTheKing also said been home gave him enough time to work on more songs, and he is already putting a finishing touch to his projects for 2021.

FerbTheKing hails from Rivers State, Port Harcourt and his currently working on his first major project, an EP.