The Chief Executive Officer of Lynx Group Limited, Richie Mensah has recounted how people verbally attacked his mother for allowing him to choose music over medicine.
In a recent interview with Roselyn Felli on Joy Prime’s Changes, he stated that everyone expected him to further his education in the medical field after SHS. However, he chose to pursue music after discussing it with his mother, who supported his decision.
This disappointed many, and they hurled insults at his mother for agreeing to the decision, especially since he was still young at the time.
“When I started my journey, I was 17 and a lot of people said I was too young. I finished senior high and had a convo with my mum, telling her I wanted to do music and it was a big shocker because everybody expected me to go to medical school. I had that one year between, I said I was going to see what I can do within that time. So, within that time, I opened the studio and she saw what was happening and it led to all this. But so many people insulted and told her that she was allowing his son to waste his intelligence, future, why is he going to do music?, it’s not a good thing, go and do medicine and so on,” he said in explanation to why he wrote one of his hit songs, ‘Yaro’.
When he released his first song, most people did not believe he would ever make progress in music or succeed on the path he had chosen.
However, after eventually achieving success, he released ‘Yaro’ to inspire others not to let anyone limit their dreams and aspirations because of their age or stature.
“…so ‘Yaro’ in Hausa means small boy. So I was saying ‘they say I be Yaro but they can’t contest the Yaro’,” he said.
Source: Joan Nyaame
