Nigerian singer cum songwriter, Deborah Oluwaseyi Joshua, higher identified as Seyi Shay, has opened up about how the death of her mentor, Sound Sultan, affected her tune profession.
Naija Files stories that Seyi Shay, in an interview with TVC, stated she misplaced the zeal to continue tune after Sound Sultan’s death.
The ‘Your Topic’ crooner further explained that she turned pregnant alongside with her daughter around the same length, which also encouraged her to embark on a shatter ensuing from the poisonous nature of the tune industrial.
She stated, “At some level of the filming of Nigerian Idol, my mentor, also my most effective ultimate friend, who is look after a father desire to me, and besides the person that introduced me to the Nigerian tune industrial, died. He handed away; Sound Sultan.
“After I first came to Nigeria, I became once residing with him and his wife in FESTAC for a year. He became once the one who co-signed me and presented me to each person in the industrial to blueprint clear that folks that had been his folks gape out for me.
“So, when he handed away, it became once genuinely intriguing for me to total the filming however I made it to the stay. What wretchedness the most is that I didn’t salvage to gape him sooner than he handed away. I became once speculated to flee to gape him in Unique York that weekend when we had a shatter. He asked me to lift him something namely. It staunch torn me aside. I felt look after I didn’t receive the must continue to compose tune with out Sound Sultan, my peace of thoughts, and my mental health. So, I made up my thoughts to head on a dinky shatter.
“Also, at some level of that length, I bought pregnant and I informed myself there’s no system I’m going to receive my child in the poisonous tune industrial that I’m in and below the scrutiny that I became once repeatedly below. So, I staunch belief I need to soundless take a shatter.”
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