- Legendary Afro-juju artist narrated his ordeal with women
- Sir Shina Peters addressed the issue the many
controversies in the industry
- Advised upcoming artist
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Veteran afro-juju musician Sir Shina Peters whose wife
recently survived cancer in an interview speaks on how women dealt with
him at a young age by introducing him to early sex.
In an
interview with YNaija, Sir Shina Peters disclosed that his religious
background contributed to his choice of music adding that when he
discovered he was fully ready for music, he told his parents he was no
longer interested in going to school.
He said: “my being a musician today all boils to my
religious background. I’m from Cherubim and Seraphim and there is no way
you’ll be C&S-born and you won’t have music in you. I think I got
it from the church. At first I didn’t think I will do music but when I
was about to go to the higher school then I had a dream. I heard a voice
say ‘Choose one from your left or right hand’ and I opened my left one and I saw music.
I called my parents and told them I’m not going to school anymore. That
was all. Nothing really inspired me. It was a call from God. I was so
young I guess I was close to 10-years-old when I took the decision.
Nobody wanted to hear me but immediately I got the call, my career
started. As I was walked out of the house at 2 am, I trekked from Oshodi
to Olorunshogo in Mushin. I saw an hotel and I went there. When I got
there, I took the drum from the guy that was playing it then and
everyone was like ‘Who is this little boy that plays the drum like this?
That’s how it all started.”
Speaking on his many ordeals with women and how he has managed to release 16 albums, Shina Peters said:
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“It is only in this country we do not believe in abuse.
Women really dealt with me. When I didn’t even know anything about sex,
they used me a lot. I still have 100 of them and I can mention their
names. They took advantage of my youthful exuberance. That’s the only
thing but thanks to God I was able to correct it. In my days, when you
got an artiste’s house, you get to see nothing less than 4 women in the
same house.”
Addressing the issue of the many controversies in
the music industry making reference to the ‘2016 beefs’ and advice to
upcoming artists, the music legend disclosed that we are not meant to
fight each other adding that young artists to remain honest, be
prayerful and learn to fast.
Sir Shina Peters said: “There
is meant to be no room for such nonsense. We are not meant to fight
each other. We must embrace ourselves as one big family. That’s my
philosophy. Have the fear of God. Have a conscience. Be very prayerful
and fast. Be honest. If they are honest to people, they can never be honest to themselves.”