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Isn’t it rather curious that Moses Oyeleye – a. k. a. Leye Moses – now blames it all on “No Gray”? Yeah, perhaps this song, which was written and performed by the American gospel, R ’n B singer Jonathan McReynolds, should take the blame for the virtual neglect of his promising studio practice.
It was in 2017 when the University of Lagos graduate first heard the song, which was released in 2012 as one of the songs in McReynolds’ Life Music album. This was thanks to a friend, who knew about his passion for the R ’n B musical genre.
“I learnt the song and would sing the lyrics as if I owned them,” Moses says. Indeed, some of his friends, who neither knew the song nor about McReynolds, actually thought the song was his. “This was when the idea of doing a cover of the song started forming in my head. I got even more motivated to do it when I heard a cover of the song done by Alic (Paco) Walls, who infused a rap verse into his version.”