Singer, Patoranking has described the reception of his sophomore album, Wilmer as “awesome”. The artist said he barely received negative feedback on the project.
The singer explained this in a recent interview with Okay Africa.
Pato despite the numerous positives from the project, there were only a few negative feedback. However, the artist said he would never let such comments hurt him.
“I like to keep it 100. I don’t lie to myself. The comments and the whole feedback from the album has been awesome,” Patoranking said in the interview.
“Whatever they say is cool. It’s a blessing for me, I’m happy. This is an album that I had a lot in mind for, and when it came out, it was close to what I was expecting.
“For me, I don’t expect much so I don’t get hurt. That’s the life I have been living for the longest. But for Wilmer, the album, I was like ‘nah, this is different. How Patoranking is being perceived is quite different from just any artist.'”
The Wilmer album was heavily influenced by Patoranking’s daughter and he explained why the birth of his daughter meant so much to him that he had to stamp his daughter’s presence on the album.
“Wilmer, by God’s grace came into my life, on August 20, 2018. We were recording the album then, but trust me, in that period, it was my first time having a child and I don’t know. You know when you’re about to transit from one stage to another.
“For me, that was a transition from a boy to a man. In that phase, things were funny. I wasn’t used to a lot of things I was seeing, so it was negatively affecting the whole creative process of the music. I remember the day she came. I held her in my hands, and it was a different feeling entirely.”