Tiwa Savage remains one of Nigeria’s most-celebrated female singer within and outside Nigeria. She was recently signed to the Roc’s Nation, an American entertainment company founded by an American rapper, Jay Z.
In a feature titled, ‘Meet Tiwa Savage, One Of Afrobeats’ Leading Ladies’ with VIBE, an international news magazine, Tiwa talks about how she journeyed into music at a very young age after her family relocated from Nigeria to London.
She also revealed how a high school crush made her pick up trombone!
“I played trombone. Don’t ask me if I still play [laughs], but I literally picked it up because I had a crush on a boy in high school. He used to hang around with the cool kids, the musicians and dancers.”
“Here I was: this kid fresh from Nigeria, strong accent, my mom shaved my hair off. I tried to get his attention. I went to this music teacher and said that I really wanted to do music. He looked to the corner of the room and said the trombone was the only instrument left. I picked it up, but eventually got bullied for it because it was always getting in the way on the bus. That was having the opposite effect of what I wanted because this guy’s now laughing at me instead of falling in love with me. So, I gave up and joined the choir.”
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