Sometimes Delayed Success Is Actually Blessing - Tiwa Savage Shares Story

Sometimes a delayed start is the best thing that can happen to a person, and sometimes in life, we don't realize this until later in life when looking back. This is what has happened to Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage who now looks back on her life, and is grateful for getting her start later in life, something she once used to feel bad about. Here's what Tiwa Savage had to say about this on The Receipts Podcast.

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Speaking about why she used to resent not starting earlier in life, and why she's now grateful for it, Tiwa Savage said:

TIWA SAVAGE: At the time, when I was younger and had performed backup for George Michael and Mary J Blidge, and then from there, I told my parents that I wanted to do music. I didn't want to be a backup singer. My dad wrote a list: accounting, economics, choose one of this. And so I picked accounting, and I went to school, graduated, worked as an accountant for like 2 years at Royal Bank of Scotland, and then I said "okay daddy, can I go into music now?" And he was like yeah, but you have to study it. I was like dad, nobody studies music. Michael Jackson didn't go to university. But he was like no, so I had to go to school. So he made me, and I studied jazz in school, and I also studied music business which helps me now. But then, it delayed me. Do you get? I could have started when I was 18. I didn't graduate with my second degree until I was in my late 20s. So now in America, when I'm trying to get deals, I'm like 27, and nobody wants to sign me at 27. Can you imagine?

Now, I feel like God has done this on purpose, because I feel like God delayed my success for a purpose. I used to hate it. I used to be like why wasn't I successful in my 20s or whatever? I didn't start till my 30s. But it is to bless other people. It is to bless that girl that is 25 that is scared, like I haven't done it at 25. They should open my page and see that I started in my 30s and think to themselves, I have still time, it can still happen for me.

And if I started younger, I would have done things, I might have been on drugs sprung out somewhere, because I wasn't mature enough.

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