Popular Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, in her
recent interview with E! Entertainment,
talked about how she was able to build her
brand as Tiwa Savage only through the help
of her estranged husband, Tee Billz.
According to her, it was never her intention
to be romantically linked to Tee Billz whose
real name is Olatunji Balogun.
She said, “When I first met him, I felt he was
very arrogant. He was very tall, dark,
handsome and very confident.
“He oozes that and he always expects that
from me as well. So when I first met him, I
didn’t fall in love. It wasn’t love at first sight.
Although when he first met me, he said to me
‘so it’s either two things; I am either going to
manage you or marry you. So I was just like
‘What! You are so full of yourself; I would
never date you, let alone marry you’. So
obviously, we decided he was going to
manage me because I turned down the other
option.”
“I never saw myself getting romantically
involved with him; however, on getting to
discover another side of him, I fell for him.”
She continued, “We worked so closely
together and I discovered this soft emotional
guy. One who gave up everything for my
career. He had a great business in L.A but he
moved to Nigeria because he really believed
in me more than I believed in myself.
“So gradually I just started seeing in him, this
person. So it was inevitable. I tried to fight it.
It can’t happen and I couldn’t help it.”
Tiwa Savage and Tee Billz.
She went on to stress that Tee Billz
deserves the praise for shaping up her
brand. She explained, “When Teebillz
became my manager, he molded me into the
Tiwa Savage brand we know today.”
“I needed to do something and I met my
manager who is now my husband. He saw me
and was like ‘you could be really pretty if you
put an effort into it’ and I was like ‘wait what
do you mean’ and he was like ‘you need to
lose a little weight, wax your legs; that might
be attractive.
“So he just literally put me through this
whole program and told me that ‘the music is
great, the talent is there but 80% of it is
branding.’
“So if you want to do the tom-boy thing, you
have to take it to the extreme if you want to
be hot and sexy you have to take it to the
extreme. So I started learning how to wear
heels and he basically just groomed me into
the image of Tiwa Savage that we see now”.
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