The Port-Harcourt-born musician opened up about his struggle with depression and how he used the experience to inspire his music in an interview with H Steph.
According to Omah Lay, it was providential for him to experience depression so that he might assist those who are presently depressed.
The well-known Nigerian singer Omah Lay, Stanley Omah Didia, has admitted that he observed suicide while depressed.
He stated, “I was at the verge of…I was suicidal, mahn. Trust me, I was really f*cked up.
“But I think I have to be there to actually help the people who are there right now to get out of that place. I mean it will take a real person like me to go there and then make music out of it and talk about it so openly how I’m a mess, how I think and how I’m f*cked up and everything.
“I’m not sure you will find afrobeats artists who do that right now. Everybody is out there saying afrobeats are not so deep, ‘afrobeats are just vibes and sh*t’. Nah. That’s why everybody is just doing hype. The real music is dying.”
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