Since going solo after her musical group, KUSH, broke up, Lara George has proved her mettle as a talented singer. With many hits to her credit, she has become a diva sought after both at home and abroad.
But things have not always been rosy for the easy-going, ever-smiling mother of two who stormed Vanguard’s corporate office on Monday, accompanied by her husband, Gbenga.
Read The Interview Below.
What really inspired the song Dansaki?
The song came at a moment in my life when I was pregnant with my second baby. I was also working on my second album. I was just thankful to God. One day I put pen to paper and said “I am acknowledging you for who you are in my life” and the words just kept coming. I wrote half of the song and I left it.
When I started to record, the other half of the song came. It was one of those songs you never thought would turn out to be a hit. I was just trying to express myself to God .So it’s just such a beautiful thing that people would pick from the album and love it.
What were you thankful for at that point in time?
I was pregnant. It wasn’t that I had any issues getting pregnant but you know the life of a woman, time and chance just come to make it come together. We had put off having a baby for about six years. Each year came and I wasn’t ready.
So for everything to be smooth when I wanted to have the baby, I was grateful for that. I was grateful for family. I looked around me and found that there was nobody missing. Everybody was intact .I could call on family and friends around me.
I looked at my work and I was grateful. Sometimes, I just get on the internet and somebody sends me a message from Malaysia thanking me, for a song that I did that ministered to them. Someone saying their marriage is still together just because I wrote a song. I thought about all these things and I was thankful.
