"I will sing a song for my late mum," says Nigerian singer Seyi Shay

Celebrated Nigerian artiste Seyi Shay whose Murda single featuring Patoranking is currently ruling the music charts in Nigeria says she owes her singing career to her late mother who inspired her to be a star.

“My mum did not know what she was doing when paying for my violin lessons, drama classes, allowing me to go to japan with my gospel choir…I will do a song for her,” she told the media in Nairobi Kenya, today, where she is working with the continental music TV show Coke Studio Africa.

“I work like a man, I carry the voice of my funerals in my head everywhere I go. I have a lot to show and prove being the child of a single mum, child of someone that does not have a relationship with her father.

I owe too many women, girls particularly in Nigeria (and) I am proving that (girls can make it) in a male invested industry. Basically it’s all about hard work,” she noted.

“Stay hold, stay positive and stay fresh. Always reinvent yourself,” she challenged her fellow artistes.