Just over a year ago, in 2021, Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage lost her father. These days, she is talking more about how life has changed since then and the guilt she occasionally feels. Tiwa Savage was frank in an interview with NTV Kenya about losing her father and how it has affected her. What Tiwa had to say is as follows.
It all started when Tiwa was asked “You’re now Dr. Tiwa Savage, that is such an incredible honor. Tell me about how it all happened.” She said:
TIWA SAVAGE: Yeah, I just got a call from my manager and she was like they are gonna give you a doctorate. And I was like “wow!”, it was from my old school as well. It’s the school I graduated from in London. So it was overwhelming moreso because my African parents, especially my father who passed away was very big on education. So he would have been more proud of this moment than if I had won a Grammy. For African parents, this is like it for him. So it was really more emotional that this actually happened. I was sad that he wasn’t here to witness it but it was huge for my family.
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“I am so sorry for the loss of your father. Grief. No one would understand that no matter how much money you have, or how much success you have, being so broken.”
TIWA SAVAGE: Grief, you can’t explain it. Being unable to help, I felt really helpless during his last few days. So it was tough and it is even sometimes tough because I think to myself, I’m still moving on, I’m travelling, I’m doing whatever, and I’m just like: life goes on. It’s also hard for me to like comprehend.
“It’s wild. So you feel guilty?”
TIWA SAVAGE: Sometimes, of course. Like when his one year memorial came, and I was like it has literally been a year, and life has literally like moved on, and it is sad.
“It is so sad, especially because of the kind of pillar that he was in your life. And you want them to know you meant something, I haven’t forgotten about you, but then life does move on. It’s a testament to “don’t care so much about what people think about you in this world because life does move on after you’re gone”.
TIWA SAVAGE: Absolutely. No matter how much you achieve in life. I look at people like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and it’s like, people will move on. So it’s like yeah, you’re right, you have to put it into context. What you go through in life, and just live.
“How do you feel like grief changed you?”
TIWA SAVAGE: Well, I lost two very close people in the space of three weeks that year and it was hard. I think it’s made me just really value life even more and just live in the moment and not hold on to things too much, and not dwell on things too much. To just know how fragile life is.
Wow, the loss of a loved one! It is by far the hardest thing anybody has to go through in this life, filled with so many emotions.