Nigerian Singer and songwriter Oludipe Oluwasanmi David, popularly know as Spyro, has opened up on why he maintains his brand despite facing pressure from his team members.
Taking to his Instagram page, the singer spoke about certain challenges he faced in the music industry for pushing his religion.
“Let me educate you briefly about why I am particularly thankful today. I left the label I was signed to in 2019 to start mine. We took bank and personal loans to kick start. And from then till now there has been no form of external financial support from no one. And then I woke up one morning and a few team members came for me asking questions about my JESUS BOY brand. They said ‘you might have to change this brand, we don’t think it’s working for us. I was told to remove the ‘CHRIST AMBASSADOR’ I had written on my profile as at then,” he wrote.
Spyro also stated that people told him that constantly associating his music with Jesus will limit his success.
“It quickly turned into a big fight. I remember saying I will rather DIE than remove Jesus from my profile. Even though I understood where they were coming from. They felt like associating with JESUS limits me and it doesn’t look lucrative and when they saw I wasn’t going to back down. Someone suggested I at least change it to ‘child of God’ which to him is a broader term. I said NO again and told them the JESUS that I proclaim will make a way for me. Recently one of the team mates called and said to me ‘a lot of artistes are suffering now, no deals, no shows but you are in a very good place and I am proud of you’ ah,” he said.
