- Patience Ozokwor has opened up on some of the challenges she faced prior her stardom.
- The veteran movie actress in a recent interview revealed that she did odd jobs like washing and dressing dead bodies at the morgue to take care of her home.
Veteran Nollywood actress, Patience Ozokwor, widely known as Mama G, has reflected on her life and struggles before stardom.
Speaking on the sidelines of the pre-premiere dinner of Funke Akindele’s movie, ‘Everybody Loves Jenifa’, Mama G said she did odd jobs to cater for her family before fortune smiled on her.
Patience Ozokwor revealed that among the odd jobs she did was work as mortician, and went on to praise Funke Akindele as a workaholic like herself. She said:
“Funke Akindele is a very strong woman. I love strong women. I am a strong woman. I am talking about the things that I do at home. I am a very strong woman, I went through thick and thin to become who I am today.
“I used to go to the morgue to dress dead bodies so my children could go to school and eat. I did a lot of things to make my family what they are today.
“You know they say no problem is accepted in his town but in my own place, they appreciate me a lot because they saw me through all these things.
“That’s the way I see Funke. When I see her, I look at myself. She’s a replica of who I am.”
In other news, Nigerian singer Adekunle Gold has celebrated his 10 year anniversary as a singer, since releasing his debut single ‘Sade’, by revealing the secret to how his talent was discovered
In December 2014, Adekunle Gold announced himself on the Nigerian music scene with the hit single ‘Sade’.
The song, a cover of British boy band One Direction‘s smash hit ‘Story Of My Life,’ became a viral hit that brought Adekunle Gold mainstream attention and paved the way for his success.
In a recent interview reflecting on his 10 years in the industry, Adekunle Gold shared the role singer-songwriter, and producer Pheelz played in getting him signed to YBNL by Olamide.
Before getting signed to the label, the singer shared that he had a relationship with Olamide as he worked as a graphics designer for the label and was responsible for some of the cover art of the releases of its artists including Lil Kesh and Viktor.
On how he got signed to the label, AG baby as he is fondly called shared that Pheelz heard ‘Sade’ and spoke to Olamide to consider signing him, and the rest, as they say, is history.
