Share your music miracle – ESCAPE GLOBAL

Olubunmi Onadipe (I’ve always known her as Amoke) is an amazing and professional Singer who majored in Music performance. I mean she’s so good (No hype), she was my senior colleague in the University.
This particular podcast makes me extra glad, because it’s the first I’ll be having with someone beyond the shores of Nigeria 💃💃💃

Her background in music according to her is simple, she was simply around music, a family of music and this seemingly ‘simple background in music’ inspired her to study it as a course. She studied Music first at the Polytechnic of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria where she had an Ordinary Diploma (OND), she then crossed to Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Osun state, Nigeria to further in Music. It’s been an amazing journey for her.

She’s very passionate about Music Therapy and she shares how Music has healed her in the past and how she’s continually healed by it Everytime.

She shares how much she fell in love with a particular piece written by the delectable Johann Sebastian Bach popularly known as J.S Bach. In my conversation with her, she shared that this piano piece of his gets her whether she’s happy or sad.

She has listened to this piece for years but she can’t just explain why something in her just comes alive anytime she listens to it, she has never been bored listening to this.
My conversation with her opened my eyes to the fact that there are certain persons who could have this one song or piece of music on repeat forever because it makes them come alive and they never get bored.

This conversation is worth your time I must acknowledge, kindly click the link below to listen 👇

Thank You for always reading and listening 💜

Song recommendation for you;
Mai Taimako na (My Helper) by Solomon Lange, kindly click link below to listen 👇https://youtu.be/4lPZlJ5fZZ8

Olayemi Afees Akanni has a strong Muslim background so the possibility of being immersed in music was quite slim, his background in music is one from learning lots of songs by listening to the radio. The radio and his school assembly ground was a major influence in his music life, then when he eventually went to church.

He shared how he felt cheated being the last born of the family for over 10 years until he was displaced😅, he always felt unloved because he wasn’t pampered. He started having thoughts of death in such moments, he’d somehow begin to hum a tune when those thoughts surged in, it helped him bounce back from such state.
He didn’t understand how music was helping him walk through dark questioning seasons until he got into the Tertiary institution.

In His words ‘I used to fear calls from home’, things weren’t okay at home and he tried to avoid receiving calls except if it came from his Father and this was because he knew that his Father had the ability to manage conveying a critical situation in speech.

His sister and Father were challenged health wise, His father had issues at work and his sister’s marriage was close to falling apart. Everything came falling like a pack of cards, he had to skip tests, was thinking of committing suicide at the thought of everything happening but thankfully he didn’t.

It was first his elder sister who died on New Year’s day and it felt like everything came crashing, he was numb and just couldn’t understand what was happening. You’d think that was just it, his father was ill and his leg was about to be amputated, his father didn’t want it, he backed his Father who once carried him, such painful sight to behold and that was the last he saw him. He died!
Olayemi had to walk through the season of losing two loved ones, he grieved with hope with music that reassured him and made him see the bigger picture.

He also shared with us how Songwriting helped him through tough seasons.

I think his story is one worth listening especially if you are walking through grief. Kindly click the link below to listen 👇👇

https://anchor.fm/mercy-kay/episodes/G-R-I-E-V-I-N-G-W-I-T-H-H-O-P-E-ek17qf

I always look forward to reading from you.
Thank You 💚