Erstwhile singer, Mo’Cheddah, who is praised as one of the first female pop heavyweights in the Nigerian music industry has finally opened up on the cause of her early retirement.
Mo’Cheddah came to fame as a teenager in the early 2000s after her Sauce Kid aided track, Won Beri made its way to become a national anthem of sorts, shooting her from oblivion to a consequential voice in the music sphere.
The singer continued to rise and won an MTV Africa Music Awards in the ‘Best New Act’ category, and the then-coveted Channel O Awards.
The singer’s run was, however, short-lived as she made a questionable exit from the music scene. “Where is Mo’Cheddah?”, fans questioned. Nearly seven years later, the singer has finally opened up on the events that led to her early exit.
Speaking in a new episode of Dang Monologue, a video series that finds people speaking their truth, Mo’Cheddah revealed that she decided to retire from music after realising that it made her unfulfilled. She went on to reveal that the pressure and demands of being a celebrity caused her to lose herself and eventually fall into a deep depression and became suicidal.
“What broke me was that when I left my label… people chose to pick sides and obviously it wasn’t mine.
Speaking further on her exit, she posited that the music industry was hostile. It didn’t matter if she was a teenager, people treated her with disdain and spite.
