Nigerian recording artiste, Temilade Openiyi, who is better known as Tems, has said women are not respected in the Nigerian music industry.
The Grammy award winner while speaking in a candid interview with the BBC, reflected on her early struggles as a woman navigating a male-dominated space and revealed how those experiences shaped her mission to uplift other female creatives.
“People don’t respect women in the [music] industry,” Tems stated
The Love Me Jeje hitmaker said she wants “to change the way women see themselves in music” and hopes to achieve this through her new platform, The Leading Vibe Initiative.
Tems explained that the initiative is aimed at giving women easier access to platforms and “a wider audience and success.”
She advised aspiring female musicians to have an idea of what they want for themselves, their brands, and their boundaries: “What are the things that you wouldn’t do for fame and the things that you would do?”