There is no denying the fact that a lot of talented singers both local and international have at one point or the other dumped their music career for other professions when they realised that music wasn’t paying off.
However, for Nigerian female music star and Grammy award winner, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems the reverse is the case.
The singer revealed that she refused to give up her music career because money was not her goal. The beautiful and curvy damsel also added that she was prepared to die.
She made the shocking revelation in an interview recently.
She said; “I was prepared to die. I believed in myself so much that I didn’t really care if I never became anything or anyone. I just wanted to get a message out.”
“I wanted to get my frequency out. And I was like, ‘Even if ten people hear this, it’s fine.’ But also along the way, I used to listen to a lot of Nigerian music and I wasn’t getting a lot of spiritual – I love Celine Dion, so, I love that intense feeling of, I’m about to jump off a cliff.”
“That’s how I want my music to feel all the time, and Afrobeats wasn’t necessarily giving me that type of stimulation.”
“Everyone I asked for advice from back then, urged me to do afrobeats. They said ‘the only way you can do this is Afrobeats. It’s not that your music is bad, it’s just that it doesn’t fit in Nigeria. Nigerians don’t like this.”
“I refused to give up because money was not my goal. I am chasing a frequency.”