In a poetic message ahead of his 54th birthday, the Ibadan-born musician recounted how he began his musical career from Ajegunle to become a renowned performer.

Saheed Osupa, a Fuji music maestro, has described his life journey as a rollercoaster filled with tussle and struggle.

In a poetic message ahead of his 54th birthday, the Ibadan-born musician recounted how he began his musical career from Ajegunle to become a renowned performer.

Born on August 7, 1969 in the Mosafejo area of Ajegunle, Lagos State but grew up as a child in Ibadan, Oyo State, Osupa has risen to become a force on the Nigerian music scene.

“Trust me, that coming from a stormy start, and getting to this height, have not been easy, the unpredictability of the gravity of life has always moved the son of man through many ups and downs, with life’s pendulum surprisingly swinging from back and forth to left and right. A tortuous journey it has been, a journey that began from my hood, Ajegunle, to the world,” he began.

Continuing, he wrote: “At one point or the other, I have been pressed on every sides by troubles, hugged tightly by the arms of tussles while I wriggled, I was wrapped roughly with the wrappers of struggles, knocked many times, and many more times I was crushed, but I never crashed, smashed but never broken, stomped on severally, yet the jazzy Jackie always danced up to these jazz musics with resurging Fuji jives.”

Though Osupa started his music career as a teenager in the midst of  faceoffs with different formidable hurdles, he never surrendered.

He said: “At some point, I was soaked in the perplexity of confusions as I didn’t understand why things got harder and turned tougher as I strive  further to thrive higher, yet I never gave up on my dream, for I know, surely, that “growth can come only after tough times and struggle,” just like the stormy rains herald the showing of the beautiful rainbow.

“Through and through these struggles, God never forsook me, He never deserted me, He never cast me off His merciful eyes, as a matter of fact, He has always turned every situation around in my favour. Indeed, it has been nothing, but a rollercoaster ride, and I cannot not fully relish these experiences without getting emotional.”