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“Right now, no one is fighting,” noted the melodic Abogezi singer in an interview last weekend.
“Yet if it is about fighting, it should be a real fight; this business of pulling each other's ears, we don't want to see that.”
Henry was speaking in light of the recent fight between musician Rickman and Grenade.
The clash in which Rickman reportedly left with a shattered mouth, was sparked by Sheilah Gashumba whom they both dated.
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But according to Tigan, this clash and several such others in the past, are merely childsplay.
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“In our time when I was still in Fire Base, a fight meant a fight. This drama they are playing; it is tiring and the fans are bored,” he said
“We want to hear that someone gauged another person’s eye out, then we shall know that it's serious business. I once saw an artist being reeled out of a show on a stretcher in Nakivubo stadium.”
While his advice might sound controversial to some, Tigan says real violence can at times help give traction to an artist.
In countries like Jamaica, he said, artists wear their scars which they got from fights with pride.
“You find someone walking around with missing fingers….someone cut them off with pliers during the fight,” he said.
If Ugandan artists cannot afford that level of violence, Henry says they should quit petty fights altogether.