Saheed Osupa reels out life struggles on 54th birthday

Fuji musician Saheed Osupa has recounted his struggles before emerging as a force in the genre in honour of his 54th birthday.

Saheed said he had a “stormy start” from his days in the Lagos suburb of Ajegunle in an Instagram post on Monday.

The singer stated that even when things were difficult, he persisted because he had faith that a rainbow would appear after the storm.

“Trust me, that coming from a stormy start, and getting to this height, have not been easy, the unpredictability of the gravity of life has always moved the son of man through many ups and downs, with life’s pendulum surprisingly swinging from back and forth to left and right,” Saheed wrote.

“A tortuous journey it has been, a journey that began from my hood, Ajegunle, to the world.

“At one point or the other, I have been pressed on every sides by troubles, hugged tightly by the arms of tussles while I wriggled, I was wrapped roughly with the wrappers of struggles, knocked many times, and many more times I was crushed, but I never crashed, smashed but never broken, stomped on severally, yet the jazzy Jackie always danced up to these jazz musics with resurging Fuji jives.

“At some point, I was soaked in the perplexity of confusions as I didn’t understand why things got harder and turned tougher as I strive further to thrive higher, yet I never gave up on my dream, for I know, surely, that ‘growth can come only after tough times and struggle’, just like the stormy rains herald the showing of the beautiful rainbow.”

Saheed Osupa said the fact that he is successful is a testimony that “God is not dead.”

Friends of the singer such as actors Femi Adebayo and Bimpe Akintunde, and waka singer Salawa Abeni felicitated Saheed in the comment section of his post.