Alvindo In Another Scandal, Accused of stealing his ‘BoyChild’ Song

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Alvindo moves from frying pan straight into the fire. Few days after his first song TakaTaka was banned, Alvindo faces accusations of stealing his second song dubbed BoyChild.

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Alvindo summoned by KFCB over his TakaTaka song

A conflict is cooking in the music industry between the renowned producer Riccobeatz and an upcoming musician “Takataka hitmaker” Alvindo and Cliff Nic MC over a new song titled ‘Boychild,’ that was released recently on youtube by Alvindo.

Alvindo uploaded the ‘Boychild’ song featuring producer Magix Enga on Magix Enga’s channel on Saturday, May 4, 2019.


Cliff Nic MC

A day later, Riccobeatz uploaded a song with a similar title on his YouTube channel by Cliff Nic MC featuring Alvindo.

Boychild song uploaded by Riccobeats channels.

Despite the time difference in the release of the song, the lyrics to both versions have a striking similarity that cannot be ignored.

Speaking to a local media house, producer Riccobeatz says the version uploaded on his channel is the original song

He further accused Alvindo of stealing the concept and rushing to release it in another studio. According to the ‘Mazishi’ hitmaker, the song belongs to Cliff who approached him and he agreed to produce and sponsor the audio which was recorded at his studio – 808 Records – as well as two other singles by Alvindo.

“Cliff wrote the entire song, Alvindo was just featured in it. We had even set a date for shooting the video, only to later come to realize that he went and did it with someone else,” says Riccobeatz.


“I think he was under pressure from his management to release another hit. After ‘Takataka’, he released a song titled ‘Kunguni’ which did not perform well and so maybe after recording ‘Boychild with us and seeing the potential in it, he decided to take it back to his stable where they quickly recorded and released it.”

In response, Alvindo dismisses the claims terming the whole story as ‘upuzi’ (nonsense) saying he has as much ownership to the song as Cliff or Riccobeatz.

However, Alvindo admits that the version uploaded by Riccobeatz was indeed the original one and added that he consulted Cliff before recording the second version with Magix Enga and he (Cliff) gave him the go-ahead.

“Cliff is still an upcoming artist, so collaborating with him was just to help him gain some spotlight. But then I saw it wise to record another version with Magix Enga because he’s already a big name,” said Alvindo.

Cliff, rubbished any claims of giving Alvindo a go-ahead to record and release the song elsewhere, adding that he (Alvindo) contacted him to request if he could use some of his lyrics from the original song but he (Cliff) refused.

Here is the BoyChild song Alvindo’s Version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4gDE_ko_Nc

“After that, he went offline and the next thing I saw was Magix Enga promoting their song. I confronted him (Magix) on Instagram and he blocked me, I haven’t heard from them since. Until about the other day when Alvindo texted me saying he was sorry and that he would split the cash with me,” says Cliff.

“The song is mine. I actually uploaded the very first version on YouTube about two months ago, and it’s still there, the one I featured Alvindo in and that was produced by Riccobeatz is actually a remix. But everything about ‘Boychild’ is mine. Alvindo and I come from the same hood, he heard the first version and asked if he could feature in a remix and I accepted, I even gave him the entire concept for his verse on the song.”

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