How I quit my 9 to 5 job for music - Alt singer, Cill speaks

Fast-rising alternative singer, Chioma Ogbonna, popularly known as Cill, has revealed how she left her law career to venture into music.

In an exclusive interview with MyNigeria, Cill, who was in an exceptionally great mood shed more light on how she was able to tell her parents she will thrive in music like she was doing as a lawyer.

Cill revealed that she resigned from her job for over a year without telling her parents even though they suspected. According to her, it was easy for her to get away with it because she was not living in the same state as her parents.

"It started with me resigning, I didn't tell them I was resigning," she said."I left my job. For a year they didn't know but they could suspect."

"Eventually I had to tell them... At that point, it was that I had already left my 9 to 5 job and this is what I was doing. But you know African parents, they won't have it so the next two to three years after that I was getting the pep talk every January 1 about what's your plan for the year," she explained.

Meanwhile, the Edo state native said she got her name [Cill] through a dream.

Cill said she woke up with the name in mind from a dream she had, even though she couldn’t remember the entire dream.

"Yeah, I dream a lot. In this particular dream, I remember waking up with the name in my head. I don’t even remember the dream but I remember that there was someone calling my name and it wasn’t Chioma, but ‘Cill’."