Popular Afrobeats star, Ayra Starr has opened up on the reason she got into the university at age 14.
The music star in a recent interview with American media giant Billboard News mentioned that she had to speed up her schooling because her mom was firm about her finishing her tertiary education before pursuing music.
She futher explained that she aimed to be a young pop star, which led her to quickly take the JAMB exam to fulfill her mother’s requirement of completing her education before diving into music.
She said “I got into the university at 14. I feel like my mum has been using music to blackmail me since I was a child.
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In her mum’s word,‘If you want to do music, you have to do this.’ When she suggested we relocate to Lagos from Benin Republic, I declined initially but she convinced me that Lagos is the land of music.
“She insisted that if I want to do music, I would have to finish school first. Usually, a lot of people in Nigeria finish secondary school at 15, 16.
“I knew that if I waited till I’m 15 [before completing my secondary school], I won’t be able to be a teenage pop star. And I wanted to be a teenage pop star. So, I joined my elder brother and wrote JAMB, what you guys called SAT here.
To be honest, the result wasn’t crazy to get me onto all these Ivy League schools but it was enough to pass by. It was enough for my mum.
“I got admitted into a good school. My course was for three years. It was International Relations. And immediately after my graduation, I started doing music covers online and that same year I got signed [to Mavin Records label].”
