Nigerian Popular Songstress, Tiwa Savage has disclosed why she was happy for South African Singer, Tyla winning the grammy over Ayra Starr, Asake, others.
The ‘’Somebody’s son’’ crooner made this known in a recently held interview with BET, where she opened up about being pitted against younger female artistes, the challenges female artistes face and how she really felt about Tyla winning Grammy over her Nigerian colleagues.
Speaking about how she’s always being pitted against new female singers, Tiwa has this to say.
In her words;
‘’Any new female artiste that comes up, it’s like “oh, she’s coming to take her throne,” and I would go out of my way to make friends with them because it’s not a competition. The real competition are the male artistes, because when we, the women, do something, we do it bigger’’.
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When asked about the challenges female artistes have to go through in the music industry, She said;
‘’ I’ve got stories of female artistes for days. They get overlooked. You can’t do soundcheck. Like initially, when I first moved back to Nigeria, I would turn up at a show and they would say I can’t perform because my outfit was too risque. Even some of my first videos were not played on national TV. They banned the music videos, and I’m literally wearing like a catsuit. It’s not even like a bikini or anything. But I’m very stubborn, so I was like my dress is going to get shorter, my tops are going to be more revealing. It was just getting worse as they were bashing me. And then, it was funny because the females were now secretly loving me. So then they couldn’t deny my followers, my fanbase was growing. So they had to put me on shows. They had to play my music, because there was a demand for it”.
According to the clip that captured the whole interview, Tiwa spoke about how she felt when South African artiste, Tyla won the grammy for the ‘’Best African Music Performance’’ over nominees Ayra Starr, Burna Boy, Davido.
She said and I quote;
I was secretly happy. Don’t tell them that, but yeah. I was singing “make me sweat” (lyrics from Tyla’s song “Water”) [laughs].
Watch the video below;
Credit: Jide Okonjo
