Fast rising artiste, Monique, real name Temitope Lawal, has
been doing well since she joined the league of Nigerian gospel musicians
in 1996.
A graduate of business management from Yaba College of Technology, (Yabatech), Lagos State, Monique has an album titled Oba Gbogbo Aye and three videos in the market and has grown from her days as a music debutant. She is presently getting ready to drop her video album.
Monique revealed that she is set to build on the success of her debut album, Oba Gbobo Aye,
which was dropped in 2011. According to her, the lyrics are now an
anthem of sort in churches ,and she wants to take advantage of the
situation.
Further, the artiste revealed that those who have influenced her
career include Mike Aremu, Midnight Crew and Kenny Saint Brown,
insisting that an encounter with God saw her choosing the gospel genre
of music.
On why she did not end up being signed up on Kennis Music despite her
close relationship with the record label’s executives, Monique, who is
signed on Spaghetti Records, stated that her time with the family was
when she was not ready to work professionally. According to her, she was
then still enjoying the fame that came with being the winner of Circle
of Stars, the competition, which launched her career.
With a long list of nominations such as New Discovery of the Year
from Nigerian Gospel Video Award, Monique has shown that she is an
artiste who has something good to offer her fans.
Recently nominated alongside top artistes as Bouqui, Sammy Okposo,
Frank Edward and Funke Akin-Okun by the organisers of the Nigerian
Entertainment Award (NEA), the lady says the fact that she made the
category is a good one, even if she does not eventually win.