Popuar songbird, Shola Allyson recently disclosed how her songs, many of which focus on society and humanity, often inspire her. The singer who started out as an actress explained her mission as a singer, a family woman and a proud ife. She told her story”
My favourite album
I cannot say this one is my favourite. I was listening to a track from my second album and I was like, Shola, did you actually sing this song? You see, my music still inspires me. When I listen to them, I want to write more songs and I give thanks to God. All my songs, there is no one that is best to me. When I listen to Obinrin, it’s like whao, when did I actually do all these with all the coinages and lyrics. When I listen to Eji Owuro, I feel the same. All my songs are special to me. They are superbly unique to me.
Making profit as a singer
My songs always sell. I don’t really know which one sells more. It was Eji-Owuro that gave me a breakthrough. That is why a lot of people think Eji-Owuro was successful in terms of profitability. Even my lecturers and everyone around me said why did I put all my hit songs in one single album. All my songs sell in terms of profitability, but in our environment, marketers, people and all kinds of licensed exploiters take away the bulk of the income. But, I thank God, doors are opening and they will continue to open.
Shola Allyson Obanyi a multi-millionaire?
Yes, by the grace of God, I’m a multi-millionaire. But in the real sense of it, I am not a multi-millionaire yet, but I know by the grace of God, I will make it. The Bible says, ask and you shall be given, God has time for everything. He makes everything beautiful when it is time. I am going to become a multi-millionaire.
Who is Shola Allyson?
In fact, you can say I’m just like the girl next door. But there is a misconception about me because once you are a public figure, people miscontrue most of the things you do or say. Some people may think I am proud, because I normally don’t like to talk, if you talk and I don’t feel what you are saying could benefit me in any way, I will just tune off because I don’t want to lose my spirituality and my spiritual energy on any irrelevant thing. I don’t want things I don’t need to infiltrate into my spirit.
Dumping Dudu Heritage
I didn’t dump Dudu. When God tells a man to move, he shouldn’t say God, please wait I’m coming. There are so many people that God has chosen and put on your path that you would meet. The only bond that should not break in life is marriage and your relationship with God. So, there are people God has placed on your path. God placed a few on your path for a reason, for a season and sometimes for a lifetime, so I believe that I’ve achieved what I wanted to achieve around Dudu. So I have to move; there is no quarrel, no argument, no conflict, nothing, nothing. I just felt I had to move and I moved. The only person I cannot think of moving away from is my husband.
Relationship with people
I have many young people around me; many public secondary school pupil around me. I like to make people enjoy life. I don’t want anybody to go on with the wrong path, saying because I’m beautiful, I’m this and that. God has put something in me for my world, you know and I want my world to know that nobody is an accident. Everybody is incidental. There is a reason why you are there. Nobody is like, oh, I should not have been here.
There is nowhere you are-as you are sitting down here, it had been written that you will be here. It has been written that you will be here. It had been written that on my path, I will meet one man that will come to interview me in order for me to achieve certain purposes, get nearer and nearest to achieving my purpose. So, I am just myself. It depends on how the other person perceives me. I won’t say I am the best. I have my own flaws too. I am very impatient. I can easily get angry but God sees our personalities before giving us our purpose.
Raising a family
Well, this has not been a challenge to me. I have a scale of preference. You have a list of what you want to do. My family is number one in anything. There was an album Lagbaja did, Lean on me. Stardom is me, me, but you have to turn the “Me” upside down and make it “we”. It is not about me alone, it is not about you alone, it has to be us. My family first, if I have to leave home, like I travelled out of the country for two or three weeks, on arrival, I would want to turn down every other thing down, so as to spend quality time with my husband and my children.
I want to do the basic thing God has called me to do. God has called me to nurture my world. If I raise a family or I don’t raise a family, it doesn’t matter, but because I’m raising a family or I don’t raise a family. So, I have to nurture my basic family. So my career doesn’t come before my family. What comes first is God, secondly being a woman, being a wife, being a mother, then being His vessel. So being his vessel is my career. My family comes first before saying I’m a star.
My favourite album
I cannot say this one is my favourite. I was listening to a track from my second album and I was like, Shola, did you actually sing this song? You see, my music still inspires me. When I listen to them, I want to write more songs and I give thanks to God. All my songs, there is no one that is best to me. When I listen to Obinrin, it’s like whao, when did I actually do all these with all the coinages and lyrics. When I listen to Eji Owuro, I feel the same. All my songs are special to me. They are superbly unique to me.
Making profit as a singer
My songs always sell. I don’t really know which one sells more. It was Eji-Owuro that gave me a breakthrough. That is why a lot of people think Eji-Owuro was successful in terms of profitability. Even my lecturers and everyone around me said why did I put all my hit songs in one single album. All my songs sell in terms of profitability, but in our environment, marketers, people and all kinds of licensed exploiters take away the bulk of the income. But, I thank God, doors are opening and they will continue to open.
Shola Allyson Obanyi a multi-millionaire?
Yes, by the grace of God, I’m a multi-millionaire. But in the real sense of it, I am not a multi-millionaire yet, but I know by the grace of God, I will make it. The Bible says, ask and you shall be given, God has time for everything. He makes everything beautiful when it is time. I am going to become a multi-millionaire.
Who is Shola Allyson?
In fact, you can say I’m just like the girl next door. But there is a misconception about me because once you are a public figure, people miscontrue most of the things you do or say. Some people may think I am proud, because I normally don’t like to talk, if you talk and I don’t feel what you are saying could benefit me in any way, I will just tune off because I don’t want to lose my spirituality and my spiritual energy on any irrelevant thing. I don’t want things I don’t need to infiltrate into my spirit.
Dumping Dudu Heritage
I didn’t dump Dudu. When God tells a man to move, he shouldn’t say God, please wait I’m coming. There are so many people that God has chosen and put on your path that you would meet. The only bond that should not break in life is marriage and your relationship with God. So, there are people God has placed on your path. God placed a few on your path for a reason, for a season and sometimes for a lifetime, so I believe that I’ve achieved what I wanted to achieve around Dudu. So I have to move; there is no quarrel, no argument, no conflict, nothing, nothing. I just felt I had to move and I moved. The only person I cannot think of moving away from is my husband.
Relationship with people
I have many young people around me; many public secondary school pupil around me. I like to make people enjoy life. I don’t want anybody to go on with the wrong path, saying because I’m beautiful, I’m this and that. God has put something in me for my world, you know and I want my world to know that nobody is an accident. Everybody is incidental. There is a reason why you are there. Nobody is like, oh, I should not have been here.
There is nowhere you are-as you are sitting down here, it had been written that you will be here. It has been written that you will be here. It had been written that on my path, I will meet one man that will come to interview me in order for me to achieve certain purposes, get nearer and nearest to achieving my purpose. So, I am just myself. It depends on how the other person perceives me. I won’t say I am the best. I have my own flaws too. I am very impatient. I can easily get angry but God sees our personalities before giving us our purpose.
Raising a family
Well, this has not been a challenge to me. I have a scale of preference. You have a list of what you want to do. My family is number one in anything. There was an album Lagbaja did, Lean on me. Stardom is me, me, but you have to turn the “Me” upside down and make it “we”. It is not about me alone, it is not about you alone, it has to be us. My family first, if I have to leave home, like I travelled out of the country for two or three weeks, on arrival, I would want to turn down every other thing down, so as to spend quality time with my husband and my children.
I want to do the basic thing God has called me to do. God has called me to nurture my world. If I raise a family or I don’t raise a family, it doesn’t matter, but because I’m raising a family or I don’t raise a family. So, I have to nurture my basic family. So my career doesn’t come before my family. What comes first is God, secondly being a woman, being a wife, being a mother, then being His vessel. So being his vessel is my career. My family comes first before saying I’m a star.
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