Popular singer, Tiwa Savage has opened up on the production of Celia, her third studio album, saying it was produced under pressure.
Speaking with The Dotty Show on Apple Music 1, the Universal Music Group signee explained that she was scared and nervous at the time due to the new feat she was achieving.
According to Savage, turning 40 and leaving Mavin Records for Universal means a lot to her, and she couldn’t take it for granted.
Her words: “I literally started at the beginning of the year. I took out about a month. I did not listen to anything. I had a camp in Nigeria; I rented out about nine rooms. I didn’t even see my family. I was there every day. I also worked from pain.
“I was under pressure. I was about to turn 40 and I was scared and nervous. I was just signed to Universal Music. I wasn’t with Mavin anymore.
“There was so much that was happening in my life and I was coming from a very scared place when I worked on the album. However, I decided I was going to do it, even though I was scared. If it became a success, which it has become for me, I believe it could be a motivation for other women that whatever they are going through, they just have to work with the fear; work through it.”
In the course of the interview, Savage expressed delight for being on American singer Beyonce’s Lion King album.
Expressing her delight in the project, she said, “To have someone like that co-sign a lot of artistes and use her platform, definitely (it was wonderful). I feel like it opened me up to some people who probably didn’t know who Tiwa Savage was until they listened to that project. Absolutely, there’s no denying it. She’s Beyonce, it’s huge. And ‘Lion King’ is a huge project. I grew up watching it and my son still watches it. It’s just one of those timeless films.”