Superstar singer Yemi Alade revealed that she had been claiming to be 22 for three years because she was preoccupied with being alone with her team and didn’t care about the outside world.
She disclosed that she opted to stay alone and concentrate on her music after discovering that her coworkers weren’t pleasant when she first entered the music industry.
She acknowledged that she was too preoccupied with her music and career to see how quickly time was passing, and she was quick to tell people she was twenty-two when, in reality, she was twenty-five.
Alade also stressed that she doesn’t attend events or parties where she isn’t invited, because she doesn’t have many friends.
The songstress also opened up about a brief period of cigarette addiction she experienced during her university days. She shared that she decided to quit after realising the habit was negatively impacting her health and vocal performance.
In November, Yemi Alade spoke about how she was sexually harassed during her early years as a young, struggling female artist.
The Johnny crooner revealed that sexual harassment was the major challenge she confronted, recalling how music executives often harassed her during meetings and studio sessions while she was still a teenager.
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Speaking in a recent episode of the Swift Conversations podcast, Alade said, “In those beginning days, all I thought I needed was just my talent because that’s what I have. I didn’t have a bank account full of money I could use to sponsor myself.
“I just had a talent and a zeal, and a promise that I made to myself and a promise I believed God made to me. So, I always tried to show up. I was told that I needed to work harder and so I worked harder, and it wasn’t enough. There were doors I needed to walk up to and when I walked up to the doors, they didn’t want my talent, they wanted something else.
“Many times from business meetings to studio sessions to even winning certain awards and you meet maybe the managing director or any other executive and they are trying to rub your thighs under the table. And I was just a teen.
My grand pa is rubbing my legs and I can’t speak because I’m in shock.
“We are having an actual business meeting. Why are you rubbing my thighs? I had to speak to myself and decided if music was what I wanted to do because the sexual harassment was becoming too rampant. But something in me told me to keep pushing my talent. So, I still showed up. If door was left open for me, I would walk in. If it was shut in my face, I would walk away.”
Yemi Alade said she became successful in the music industry after she realised that she “needed to stop walking through the doors and start breaking down the walls.”
