Gospel singer Noble Nketsiah has revealed the role his colleague, Esther Smith, played in his music career.
Noble Nketsiah mentioned that after completing Senior High School, he began to sell secondhand clothes to support his mother in taking care of his siblings who were still in school.
He said that despite being brilliant, he loved singing and was working hard to pursue his dreams, although his mother wanted him to choose a different profession.
“When I completed secondary school, I had a bad relationship with my mother because she wanted me to further my education and become a doctor. I was very intelligent, so she didn’t understand why I didn’t want to go back to school. Also, my songs reminded her of the issues she had with my dad, so she was trying to stop me from singing.”
“I used to sell secondhand clothes. I had siblings who were also in school, and if my mother sacrificed to take care of me, the least I could do was sell to support her in taking care of the family,” he said.
He continued that as he was preparing to begin the day’s business, Esther Smith, who he used to live in the same vicinity with, got attracted to his voice and requested that they go to the studio to record some songs.
In a surprising turn of events, someone developed an interest in one of the songs he recorded, and that was how he experienced his career breakthrough.
“I lived in the same estate as Esther Smith and Morris Babyface. One morning, as I was preparing to go and sell my secondhand clothes, Esther Smith passed by and heard me singing. She was amazed by my voice and asked me to follow her to the studio. We recorded a few songs. Not knowing it, the songs we recorded were liked by someone, who paid me a huge sum of money, and that’s how my career started,” he told Emelia Brobbey on the Okukuseku Show.
Noble Nketsiah said the amount of money he made from his first song was about GHC2500.00, which was considered a huge sum back in the day.
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