{"id":39445,"date":"2024-07-18T09:59:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T09:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=39445"},"modified":"2024-07-18T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T09:59:51","slug":"i-was-tired-of-mum-trekking-rema-reveals-what-inspired-him-to-do-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/18\/i-was-tired-of-mum-trekking-rema-reveals-what-inspired-him-to-do-music\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Was Tired of Mum Trekking\u2019 \u2013 Rema Reveals What Inspired Him to Do Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Oratokhai Jesusemen. Afrobeats star, Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema, has said poverty and the plight of his mum motivated him to become a professional musician.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with Capital Xtral London, Rema recalled that his mum couldn\u2019t afford transport fares as she went about her daily business, so he was determined to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was tired of my mum trekking every day; she didn\u2019t even have money for transport to use a bus or bike. So I had to take it to the next level ASAP,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moment I made money, I got her a car ASAP. We went for dinner, then I gave her that car. A lot of boys would go for their own cars first but I was stilltrekking, but I had to get a car for my mum first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a great mum. She\u2019s the reason I\u2019m successful. Her prayers. She\u2019s really proud of me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oratokhai Jesusemen. Afrobeats star, Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema, has said poverty and the plight of his mum motivated him to become a professional musician. Speaking in an interview with Capital Xtral London, Rema recalled that his mum couldn\u2019t afford transport fares as she went about her daily business, so he was determined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39448,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39445\/revisions\/39448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}