Tiwa Savage, the renowned Afrobeats icon, recently offered a candid glimpse into her personal life, explaining why she hopes her son, Jamal, chooses a path outside the music industry. In a revealing conversation on Joey Akan's Afrobeats Intelligence, Savage shared insights gleaned from her own challenging yet ultimately successful journey to stardom.
Savage's rise to fame is undeniably inspiring, but she's quick to underscore the formidable obstacles that accompany it. "The rate of success is very slim," she admitted. "If you’re blessed to have hits, your life span, it might not be ten years. It might not even be five years. So it’s even harder to sustain a career and to be lucrative.” These words strip away the glamour often associated with celebrity, laying bare an industry where stability is a rarity and fortunes can evaporate overnight.
Beyond the struggle for longevity, Savage detailed the significant mental toll of maintaining a public image that frequently diverges from reality. "Imagine being an artiste and you’re not really making as much as people think you are, but you have to live like you are,” she shared. This relentless pressure to keep up appearances can push artists into living beyond their means, adding another layer of stress to an already demanding profession.
The COVID-19 lockdown served to highlight these challenges for Savage. With her home transforming into a studio, the lines between work and family life blurred. "Initially I was not spending time with my son especially, and it wasn’t good for me because I couldn’t separate work from home,” she confessed. This realization spurred her to establish clearer boundaries, prioritizing her son's well-being and her own mental health. She emphasized, "I wanted to be able to leave work and come home, I wanted to be able to separate work from home, especially for my son.”
Savage also recounted her early days in the industry, where she often faced comparisons to international stars and felt pressured to conform to specific molds. Tagged the "African Rihanna," she discovered that high expectations didn't always translate into genuine opportunities. “Everyone was like, ‘you’re a great singer, you look amazing.’ It was more like, let’s think about it, but I never got the call back,” she recalled.
Despite her numerous achievements, Savage’s story serves as a stark reminder that success in music comes with considerable trade-offs. Her advice to her son and to aspiring artists is unequivocal: the path to fame is far less glamorous than it appears. It demands tireless effort, significant personal sacrifice, and often, heartbreak.
Tiwa Savage’s honest reflections on the pressures of fame and motherhood offer a refreshing perspective, reminding us that behind every superstar is a person striving for balance and happiness. Her story encourages fans to look beyond the spotlight and appreciate the immense resilience required not just to succeed, but to endure, in the music industry.
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