By Blessing Udeobasi
Popular Nigerian singer, Rema, has revealed that he stopped playing gospel music and switched to secular music after he lost his dad and brother.
Rema revealed this during the Rubbin’ Minds talk show on Channels TV on Sunday where he informed that he was the head of a gospel rap group in his church back in Benin.
The Benin-born singer however said he started switching to secular music when he started going to sing at bars and lounges just so he could make ends meet.
“I was still in Benin when that switch happened. A lot of people thought that when I got signed, I started deviating.
“No. Actually, life was tough in Benin. I’m not that guy to ask the people in church to pay me because I’m doing God’s work.
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“Right there in Benin, I started going to competitions, going to bars, lounges, political rallies; just trying to get on the stage and hold a microphone, to at least get sprayed some money to come back home and feed my family, because we were going through tough times.
“I lost my father and brother and I needed to come through for my family. At that point in time, I felt like that’s where I started spacing out; little by little, until I just exiled.”
“It was weird for me and most especially for my mum because she was well known in church. I didn’t do any much explaining. I just told her to trust me,” he said.
