The Nigerian singer-songwriter Abdulsalam Suliyat Modasola, better known by her stage as Liya, has disclosed her reasons for leaving Davido Music Worldwide (DMW).
In October 2020, Liya became the first female artist to sign with DMW. She claimed that she left the company because she wanted more for herself.
During a Q&A session on Instagram in 2023, the singer revealed that she was leaving the label.
“Why did I leave? I just wanted more for myself, as a person and as an artist. I wanted more for myself. It was sad, it was depressing, I was tired, I was sick, but it was a decision that I had to make for myself. Yeah, because everyone thought I had it all figured out,” she said.
Liya also said people judged her wrongly during that period and accused her of doing nothing.
“They called me names. People saying, Oh, she’s just lazy. She doesn’t know what she’s doing. They’re just pouring money on her, and she’s not doing anything for over a year or two years. They’d just be like, oh, yeah, you just don’t know what you’re doing. It was my fault,” she said.
She added that things got so bad that she stopped handling her Instagram posts by herself for about two or three years.
“And all that period, I just did not know how to post by myself. For the past two or three years. I never posted myself on Instagram. Yeah. I always have my manager post for me. I mean, we’ll put the pictures and stuff together, slides and everything. But then I just send everything to him. Oh, this is the first slide, second slide,” she said.
Liya, however, praised her manager for staying patient with her through it all.
“He was tired, but I’m so glad he understood. He was very patient with me. He never pushed me or forced me to post myself,” she added.
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