Since her emergence in the Nigerian music industry, Waje has consistently put out works that have kept her relevant.
In a recent chat with NET,, the ‘I Wish’ singer talked about her career and her life as a single mother….enjoy!
On why she is
still single “I don`t know why, but I just feel God has a way of doing
things. I have so much on my hands now, let that matter rest now, let me
not go and marry now before my husband will say he wants pounded yam,
cooked by his wife, not by a maid. Then I will leave everything I am
doing and I will be pounding yam. But when somebody who understand my
kind of person and my job comes along, then it will be easier for me.
After all the troubles of the day, the traffic, somebody getting you
angry, there should be that one person who can calm you. Everybody would
love to have somebody as a companion, so do I.”
On how she has
been coping as a single mum “It is beautiful, something a lot of people
won`t understand when I say it. They think I’m encouraging people to do
it. It is beautiful, there are so many things that kid has done for me. I
appreciate everything that God has given me…”
Her foray into music “I have always been a singer. Since secondary school when I knew I could sing, I was always in touch with my musical side. Professionally, I just started finding myself in one place or the other because there was never a time I sat down and said, ‘I am now a musician’. My mentor Chris convinced me that I could do music professionally. I think I was 18 at that time. From there, I got into school where I started gate crashing gigs. It was at one of the shows I gate crashed that I met Psquare. It was just series of meeting people like that that started it all for me in music. It was actually Psquare that shot me into limelight with my feature in their hit song ‘Do Me’….
Growing up: “I was a big bully. The reason I got to fight always in school because I have always been busty, in school they called me ‘Milk industry’ and that got me into fights a lot. I remember passing the junior secondary school block and I heard somebody whisper ‘Milk Industry’, I went into every class as a senior to punish everybody.
Are you still a bully? (Laughs) “I don’t think that will ever leave me. I am also a friendly person, which is why despite the fact that I am an artiste I would always say hi to you. It is just who I am but sometimes people don`t understand that you are not in the mood. Like what happened one day in Shoprite; I just finished a movie with a friend of mine and as I was walking toward the car, I saw that my car had moved a little from where I parked it. I discovered that somebody had bashed it and I was angry. People around then told me the person had been waiting for the owner to apologise. The guy came out and was like he is sorry and all that, and I said, no problem, the next I heard was please Waje, can I take a picture, I was like okay, I was forcing myself to smile. DJ Caise was there too and said this is hilarious. Sometimes on Twitter I would see some comments and I would want to lash out at people, but that is not how I am. As a kid I was friendly as I am now and also very restless. I was a very active kid, too active to be a girl…
Describing her worst day ever “It was at a
corporate event, and this was three or four years ago. I was to sing the
National Anthem and I was scared. I had done it before at a show so
they were impressed and they wanted me to come do it again. As I climbed
the stage, Nomoreloss said, ‘Don’t forget the national Anthem oo’, and
that was it, my head was blank. The next day, the newspapers were filled
with the news that Waje forgot the national anthem”