The well-known singer Joeboy remembers his time spent working in a pure water plant during his time in college, and he talks about how that experience inspired him to pursue a career in singing.
The musician said in a recent interview with the Afrobeats Intelligence Podcast that his brief experience as a university student working at a sachet water mill during a strike was one of the things that bolstered his desire to become a well-known musician.
He claimed that he had looked for work during that time but had been unsuccessful. He became alarmed, wondering whether this was how he would have to look for work after finishing his education.
He stated…
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“I studied Human Resources and Personal Management. When I was in the university, there was a strike for like three months. So I decided to get a job and I was searching for a job for like three months in the whole of Lagos. I did not get one single job.
There was even a time I worked in a pure water factory as a marketer. At that point I was like, ‘I’m looking so hard for a job and I can’t find any. Is this how I’m going to end up when I finish school?’ So that was also a trigger. I told myself, ‘You really have to make sure you make it .”
His life has been a “miracle,” he said, adding that while some had advised Mr. Eazi, the head of his former record company, not to sign him, he had been signed to Empawa by accident, and that’s where his music career took off.
The musician claims that not even his parents thought he would become a musician.
Having just started his own record label, Young Legend, and formerly being known as Empawa, Joeboy claimed to have “the best label deal in Afrobeats history in Nigeria.”
