Nigerian singer and songwriter, Oyinkansola Sarah Aderibigbe, popularly known as Ayra Starr, has stated that she couldn’t sing properly for about two months.
Speaking with Joey Akan on the ‘Afrobeats intelligence Podcast’, the singer, who is signed under Don jazzy’s record label ‘Mavin Records’ said that she was not taking care of her voice properly because she was performing a lot.
Ayra Starr stated:
” I think for me I was just not properly taking care of my voice because I was performing a lot and I wasn’t like drinking tea or doing vocal warm ups and all those things that’s supposed to calm your voice”
” I was literally sleeping under the AC a lot and was not doing all the things that helps prepare and stretch your vocal cords”.
She added:
” Sometimes I’m not even talking at all and then I get on stage and I’m shouting and singing. I couldn’t sing properly for two months because my voice was down and I was performing everyday still, and people started saying Ayra cannot sing.”
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