The church has produced numerous music stars over the years, whether they remain in the gospel genre or pursue other endeavours.
The story is the same for the rave sensation of the moment, Divine Ikubor, a.k.a. Rema.
While he began his musical career in church and as the leader of a group called the Rap Nation, as a young teenage boy in Benin City, Edo State, the demands of life and family compelled him to pursue other avenues.
“A lot of people felt like it was when I got signed that I started deviating or whatever, no. Actually, life was tough in Benin and I’m not that guy to ask the people in church to pay me because I was doing God’s work,” he revealed in an interview.
“Right there in Benin, I started going to competitions, bars, lounges, political rallies, just trying to get on the stage or hold a microphone to at least get sprayed some money to come back home and just feed my family. We were going through tough times, I lost my dad, lost my brother, so I needed to come through for my family. That was when I started spacing out little by little until i just exiled”.