How singer Efya became a musician

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Ghanaian singer, Jane Awindor, popularly known as Efya has said she never thought of choosing music as a career.

According to her, she wanted to be a film director like her dad but her fate changed after she signed up for a singing competition.

She told BBC pidgin in an interview that, the ultimate plan “was to be behind the camera.”

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Talking about her interest in doing films, Efya added that, “I wanted to be interviewing people and making the movies. I wanted to be like my dad.”

Efya has accepted cameo roles in many movies and thought her life was cantered around it.

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“I saw people singing for competition so I signed up. My plan wasn’t to go for the competition but I was chosen. I had to travel because it was summer but my mum told me to try the competition [and that made me],” she said.