At the beginning of my third year, I finally made the difficult decision to give up the course". I missed my first-semester examinations in the first and second years, so I knew that I would have to do a sixth year to make it up. " I was the only girl in the band and there was no one who could replace me when we travelled. Seven years after I joined Lagbaja, but when the tours took me outside the country, my studies suffered. I was admitted into Lagos State University for a five-year part-time course in Public Adminstration in 2001. One of the hardest choices I had to make was between furthering my musical career and my education. However, the thrill of success did not come without sacrifices.
I got to see Brazil, Cuba, America, England, Belgium, Jordan Central and West Africa". " I have never been outside the country before I joined the band and I really wanted that adventure. There were also trips around the world, which I found extremely enlightening. We never had a bad show, they were all incredible.
Thus began my extraordinary musical journey.Īs Lagbaja produced one successful album after another, being with him, the creative relationship and friendship among the band members deepened, fed by their common joy in music-making and the enthusiastic response of their audiences. It was World Health Organisation event and I was scared and nervous before going on stage that my legs were shaking visibly.nervous or not, I sang so impressively that I then appeared regularly with Colours and within 24 months, the group evolved into Lagbaja. Three months later, he contacted me and asked me to sing at a show which was planned for the following day. He invited me for an audition and was pleased with my performance. When Bisade walked in, I thought “who is this tall handsome man?” I can still recall. My friend, Hakeem Benson, told Sunny Nneji, who belonged to Bisade Ologunde's Colours band, about my sonorous voice and he visited me at the furniture company. I come from a very creative family of rappers, actors and singers, even my mum can sing. I worked in a restaurant (not a fancy one), in a supermarket and even in a ball-making factory at Ajao Estate, but I only lasted a day there because I could not handle it" Ego which is short for Nwakaego meaning " a child is better than money" eventually found a job as a receptionist at a furniture company, where I made a steady living and still had time to sing. " After I left Ikeja High School, I wanted to start earning money immediately. But the newly married singer says the confidence she exhibits on stage today took her many years to develop. Ego Ihenacho Ogbaro was Lagbaja's main female vocalist and her name has been mostly linked to Never Far Away, the solo dedicated to her in Lagbaja's Africano The Mother of Groove Album.
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