Superstar singer, Asa, says growing up in the home of their disciplinarian father back in the Festac, Nigeria suburb, was tough for her and her siblings.
“It was a bootcamp at home — he made us eat beans for a year, and insisted on the house help putting the weevils (on), sprinkling them as protein!,” Paris-based Asa tells CNN.
She adds that she was brought up “groomed to be a wife.
“You have to learn how to cook for your husband, you have to be sweet for your husband, and I was like, ‘Am I going to do all this for one person? And I don’t even know who the person is!'”
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On when she would find the right partner, the 39-year-old with five studio albums to her name, says she’s leaving everything in God’s hands.
“Trust me, at one time, when I was, I think 28, every male that went past me, I was always looking — ‘Is he the one?’ ‘Is he the one?’ It hasn’t worked, and I’m letting God do his job, you know?”, she says.
Asa shot to national and international prominence following the release of her eponymous, debut album in 2007.
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