Veteran actor Segun Arinze has disclosed how, at the age of 21, he earned his first N1,000 in 1987.
The actor said that the money came from a voice-over job he received from famous and accomplished broadcaster Soni Irabor.
The 58-year-old movie star revealed that Irabor was the one who first introduced him to voice acting when he talked about the history of his venture into the voice-over business.
In a recent interview with Biola Bayo for the “TalktoB” podcast, Arinze—who began his career as a musician—fondly remembered receiving N1,000 for his first voice-over job in the late 1980s.
“Soni Irabor walks in someday and he was looking for voice-over artiste. There was nobody around that day then he heard me speak,” he said.
“Then he said ‘You can do the voice’ Really? I cannot, he said ‘Yes, you can and I will see what you do’. And I did the voice-over. He paid me N1000. That was 1987. N1000 for just doing (voice-over). I said this is big. Coloured TV was N500 at that time.”
He also revealed that his father was against him studying performing art at the university as he wanted him to become a lawyer.
