I have never seen Efya smoke – Nana Adwoa Awindor
Nana Adwoa Awindor, mother of talented Ghanaian
songstress Efya has debunked rumours that her daughter smokes stressing
she has never seen her in the act before.
The music career of Efya, born Jane Awindor, has been rocked with
series of controversies and allegations since hitting the limelight
after emerging third in the maiden edition of the Stars of the Future
music reality show in 2006.
Major among the controversies are allegations that she smokes and she
is also into hard drugs but the mother, who is Development Queenmother
of Afigya-Kwabre District, is urging Ghanaians to be circumspect in
their judgement about her daughter.
According to her, it is not fair to concoct stories about her daughter with no evidence.
“You need to know, you need to see it, you need to appreciate it. If
you don’t have the information you don’t go peddling it,” Nana Adwoa
Awindor stressed.
She noted that, “I have not seen my daughter smoking before… so how can
I go tell people she does? So if people haven’t seen it and I have
asked a lot people ‘have you talking about it, seen her doing something
like that before?’ If you say yes, then fine you have seen it, I haven’t
so I don’t have to go peddling it.”
The host of the late television show Greetings From Abroad urged
instead that Ghanaians should be protective rather “than destroy”
people.
She revealed that, her daughter “is gifted. She is gifted from the
onset she started singing publicly around two years when we used to give
her microphones to sing at birthdays.”
The Queenmother said she has no qualms about her daughter’s musical
career path noting that she absolutely supports her 100% in what she
does. “Your job as a parent is to guide,” she added.
While admitting that stories about drugs is normal in the entertainment
industry, Nana Adwoa Awindor observed that “I don’t think we should be
doing that. Showbiz is for people to show what talent God has given
them.”
“So if somebody dedicates his or her life to be in show business just
to entertain us…we should be there for the people as well but within the
show business you realise that there is competition there is so much of
those squabbles and so some of the stories are created within…and of
course our media loves [negative stories] and so sometimes they take it
up and blow it beyond proportion,” she lamented.
She added that, considering the fact that the world is now a global
village, Ghanaians should know that, Efya “is a young girl who has hit
international [stage] so if we are talking about her and we are not
careful and we are using our local squabbles to say ill things about
her, we should be careful because this is somebody we are introducing
and we have been able to push out there to represent Ghana in so many
ways.”
Efya has several awards to her credit. She was adjudged Best Female
Vocal Performance for the 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 editions of the
Ghana Music Awards.
