Ayarr Starr Reveals The Event That Led To Her Hit Song
The events leading up to the release of her mega hit song “Rush” have been discussed by Nigerian singer Ayra Starr, whose birthplace was Benin.
The singer revealed in a Billboard interview that her team had to persuade her to release the song because she wasn't sure she wanted to.
“Certainly not! I wasn't sure, so they had to persuade me to release that song,” she remarked.
She revealed that she began experiencing the worst kind of imposter syndrome following the release of her mega hit and its success.
“When it started blowing up, I was having the worst case of Imposter Syndrome. I wasn't just sure, I put out different sounds all the time but Rush was very different from everything that I had pushed out and I was like I don't know if i really wanna do this, it was very different and every other was like trust me Ayra, trust your team and I was like, okay, let's do it and when it came out, it blew up.”
She said that when she posted a 30-second clip of the song online, it went viral and she started to wonder if she really deserved that.
“Just from the snippet. Like a 30 seconds snippet and it was already trending and it blew up and I was like I started to have imposter syndrome cos nothing like that has ever occurred to me and I was like I don't know if i deserved this.”
Mavin Records released Rush in September 2022, taken from her first studio album, 19 & Dangerous. It was an immediate hit when it was released, both domestically and internationally.
It charted in the UK and France and reached the top of TurnTable Top 100 in Nigeria.
She received a Grammy nomination for Best African Music Performance at the 66th Grammy Awards, becoming the first female Nigerian artist to be nominated as a lead artist, for the music video, which has received over 300 million views.
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