{"id":1144068,"date":"2022-07-07T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/my-survivor-song-was-inspired-by-osinachi-nwachukwus-death\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T14:53:08","slug":"my-survivor-song-was-inspired-by-osinachi-nwachukwus-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/my-survivor-song-was-inspired-by-osinachi-nwachukwus-death\/","title":{"rendered":"My &#8216;Survivor&#8217; song was inspired by Osinachi Nwachukwu&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Wendy Shay has disclosed that her newest song, \u201cSurvivor,\u201d was inspired by the passing of Nigerian gospel performer Osinachi Nwachukwu.<\/p>\n<p>The singer said in an interview with Glitch Africa that after learning of the musician\u2019s passing as a consequence of alleged domestic abuse by her spouse, she was only able to express her \u201canger\u201d via singing.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wendy Shay, the song serves as a broken heart song for both men and women who have undergone emotional injury and is meant to give women in abusive situations the courage to speak up.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo I decided to do a song to empower women, especially those who are in abusive relationships. What really gingered this song was when I heard the death of the late Nigerian Gospel singer Osinachi,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>she said.<\/p>\n<p>She added<em>,\u00a0\u201cthat was the only way I could display my anger, through music and I want every woman and in some cases men to tap into that energy to let out any anger in them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the interview below;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CfmQwfIDe45\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>Source: GhBase<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Wendy Shay has disclosed that her newest song, \u201cSurvivor,\u201d was inspired by the passing of Nigerian gospel performer Osinachi Nwachukwu. The singer said in an interview with Glitch Africa that after learning of the musician\u2019s passing as a consequence of alleged domestic abuse by her spouse, she was only able to express her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1144070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[371,4215,8349,7811,1487,12108],"class_list":{"0":"post-1144068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-death","9":"tag-inspired","10":"tag-nwachukwus","11":"tag-osinachi","12":"tag-song","13":"tag-survivor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}