She had no desire for me to pursue a career as a musician in the first place. She wished for me to pursue a career as a medical doctor. That is not my calling, as God will have it, because I cannot stand blood. She is now delighted to see me perform; she adores it when I sing and shouts with delight as she listens to my songs. I’m sure she’s pleased and glad that she has left me a legacy.” In a new interview, Ayomikun, the daughter of gospel musician Tope Alabi, disclosed.
“I think this is a question with an obvious,” the young artiste said in her interview with City People Magazine regarding her mother, Tope Alabi, saying, “I think this is a question with an obvious.” My mother is the most influential person in my life. I aspire to be like her. You can’t look up to her and not want to act or sing as she does.
She is a big role model to me, I look up to her and aspire to write my music the way she does and be like her.”
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When asked about their relationship, she said “I don’t call her mum; she is my Aunty, my best friend. That is what she is to me. My mum is tough because she wants you to be matured and disciplined at all times. She is always teaching and talking. I learnt humility and respect for everyone and anyone no matter their status. I also learnt from my mum knowing God to his totality. I love her music and I take lots of inspiration from her music.”
She further said “I sing contemporary music, I go for Jazz, R&B but it has to be gospel contemporary music but I don’t make it as indigenous as my mother’s music. Anytime I try to sing indigenous gospel music it sounds off. She composes the Yoruba part of my song because I cannot compose Yoruba in my terms because I will make some Yoruba blunders. I tap from her type of music but when I try to sound exactly like her it changes into something else. This explains why I don’t get involved fully in her music. There was a time last year; I was getting too involved in her music. I started sounding like her and didn’t like it. My mother is going to feature in my music but she is going to be singing in my own way. My mother loves the fact I am doing something new and different from what she is doing.”
On her the release of her new album, Ayomikun said “It is going to be contemporary gospel music. It’s not going to be like something you have heard before but more in the secular frame. I have decided to transform what gospel music is from the idea of what people have about gospel music. It is going to be something that the young and old can relate with. My music is more for the youth and those that can relate to it. This is because I go through what young Christians go through so I can relate.”