Ghanaian gospel songstress, Rose Adjei has made a shocking revelation concerning her music career, recalling how even men of God nearly pushed her out of gospel music.
The diva whose songs are raising high the flag of Ghana beyond the shores of the continent said some unnamed prominent pastors prevailed on her to do secular music.
She was speaking in an exclusive interview with Steve Owusu, aka The Shishiishi Man, on Gospel One on One, a Christian interactive show which seeks to draw Gospel industry players closer to their fans, which was screened on OS TV GH via YouTube.
“I had a lot of people telling me (to do secular music) and I had one or two pastor friends who even told me to do secular music…but my love for God and the things God did for me during the [Liberia] war; because the kind of things I saw, I asked why did God keep me alive?”
Rose Adjei disclosed that at the early stage of her music career, many were wowed by her beauty and voice, but were doubtful she would break through, financially and fame wise, doing gospel songs. This largely influenced their decision to talk her out of using her voice to promote the kingdom work but rather entertain people by doing secular music.
Human intestines during Liberia War
Rose Adjei who is now married to a Pastor, returned to Ghana from Liberia with her family in 1996 at the peak of the war that claimed thousands of lives.
The artiste took time to recount her harrowing experience during the war in the West African nation.
“I saw dead bodies all over the place. I saw people crying for help because they are either hit by a bullet or something. That was even my first time, during the war, that I saw intestines of a human being coming out, at a very young age.
“So those were the things that scared me, so when I came back to Ghana alive, I asked myself so many questions, ‘why did God keep me alive, is it anything I did for him?’ No, by then I had not given my life to Christ. I said no, if God has given me an amazing gift why won’t I use it to worship him, praise him, and through my songs I can testify the goodness of the Lord.”
She explained that her past experience in Liberia influenced most of her lyrics which are mostly testimonial in nature, like the Nyame Ye released in 2013 “to prove to God that I am grateful for things that he has given me”.
The songstress, however, admitted that at a point in time she had wanted to yield to the pressure and do secular music when things got tough for her as she was being rejected by producers.
She therefore decided to back quite a number of secular musicians just for the money.
“But the passion and the love for God was on a different level, which was a strong motive, because I knew at a point that my songs would be all over,” the bubbling artiste said, adding that where she has gotten to in life in Christ, “I can tell everyone that there is no turning back”.
Rose Adjei has written several songs including hit ones like Nyame Ye, Agya Pa, Na God, M’adansedie and the recent one Nne Mmre.
She was born to a keyboardist father and a singing mother both Ghanaians but lived in Liberia before the family relocated finally to Ghana safely.