“Things are not well my brother, music could not sustain me and I turned to touting to earn a living,” he said this week. Although it is becoming difficult to make ends meet after the recent abolition of touting, Malvin S claimed to be “down but not out” and remains hopeful of a comeback.
“I cannot actually say I am out of the game, I can make a sensational return anytime. Actually, I tried to work with guys like Russo but it didn’t work out,” he added. Malvin S is a prominent figure at the Fourth Street bus terminus where he joins a bandwagon of other touts, money changers and rank marshals who gamble at a nearby pool table.
He rose to fame at the turn of the millennium with hits like Amai and My Dreams on which he collaborated with Innocent Utsiwegota, Major E and Booker T before sinking into oblivion. He tried to make a return in 2008 when he recorded a series of singles with the likes of Nasty Tricks but failed to replicate the touch that made him a household name.
Since then his life has not been far from controversy and at one point he was allegedly arrested for rape.
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