Lots of successful people were not born with a silver spoon; they attained their greatness through persistence and determination, which they freely share with others to spur them on.
Ghanaian gospel musician Joe Mettle, has revealed the bumpy ride he had as kid, revealing that at a point in time that he had to sell waakye to survive.
He said he and his friends once ‘stole’ groundnut paste to eat gari with his friends because they were so broke.
The musician, who made history by becoming the first gospel artiste to win Artiste of the Year at the 2017 Ghana Music, made this revelation during an interview with Lexis Bill on Joy FM.
Joe said:
“I did a bit of selling cards, so I sold phone cards around the time MTN recharge cards were in the system. Those were the days a sim card was sold for a hundred Ghana cedis. I did that for a while and I was like; you know what, this is not for me and so I needed to go on with my life.
Then, my family was not that wealthy so we had to work to survive and I worked with my mum for a couple of years. She was into small trading, so she sold small waakye, small rice and at a point, I had to do it because, the people loved it when I was there because I was always willing to sort them out by giving them more food for less money.
But with time, I was like I can’t do these things anymore because, God had started revealing himself to me, giving me songs, giving me ideas and I was like; okay, let me just try and that was when I started (ministry).”
The lowest period for me was; at a point, things were a bit difficult for me at home so I left the house. Followed friends, we used to play with a church and I remember very well that one time, we were really broke and had to eat gari with groundnut paste.
It was really terrible, it was hard swallowing it but we didn’t have a choice and that even caused a problem for us because; it was someone’s wife’s groundnut paste. So when the lady came back to prepare the soup, the paste was gone.
We didn’t steal it but we didn’t also know that she’ll need it that soon. The idea was that, we were going to use it quickly, so by the time she’ll be ready to prepare the groundnut soup, the paste will be back. It was a really terrible experience but in all that, I was still encouraged, knowing that I had a promise from God so, I held on to that promise.”
