{"id":140347,"date":"2024-01-18T01:56:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T01:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/18\/singer-tems-bullied-over-her-voice\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T01:56:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T01:56:31","slug":"singer-tems-bullied-over-her-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/18\/singer-tems-bullied-over-her-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer, Tems Bullied Over Her Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Tems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong>Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, Tems has said she was bullied over the pitch of her voice when she was younger.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Cut, she narrated that she didn\u2019t speak until age three.<br \/>She said she grew up feeling self-conscious because her voice didn\u2019t sound like other girls.<br \/>\u201cI was bullied to the point of tears and was a target of ridicule. This led to the belief that I sounded like a boy, or a frog, with the impression that my voice was ugly.<br \/>\u201cI was always in my own little world. When I did make friends, I would try to make them sing my songs and other girls had these sweet, high voices and my voice had a bass.\u201d<br \/>Recall that the songstress had previously stated that she started making music because she doesn\u2019t have friends.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tems Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, Tems has said she was bullied over the pitch of her voice when she was younger. In an interview with The Cut, she narrated that she didn\u2019t speak until age three.She said she grew up feeling self-conscious because her voice didn\u2019t sound like other girls.\u201cI was bullied to the point of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Singer, Tems Bullied Over Her Voice - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/18\/singer-tems-bullied-over-her-voice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Singer, Tems Bullied Over Her Voice - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tems Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, Tems has said she was bullied over the pitch of her voice when she was younger. 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