Gospel artiste Lara George had an interview with Vanguard Newspaper
recently and in the interview she talks about her music, her husband,
waiting for six years before deciding to have a child and much more.
The former member of inspirational group Kush
shares her journey and what she had to go through as a gospel artiste
to have her name stamped on the music landscape of the country
What really inspired the song Dansaki?
The song came at a moment in my life when I was pregnant with my second
baby. I was also working on my second album. I was just thankful to
God. One day I put pen to paper and said “I am acknowledging you for who
you are in my life” and the words just kept coming. I wrote half of the
song and I left it. When I started to record, the other half of the
song came. It was one of those songs you never thought would turn out to
be a hit. I was just trying to express myself to God .So it’s just such
a beautiful thing that people would pick from the album and love it.
What were you thankful for at that point in time?
I was pregnant. It wasn’t that I had any issues getting pregnant but
you know the life of a woman; time and chance just come to make it come
together. We had put off having a baby for about six years. Each year
came and I wasn’t ready. So for everything to be smooth when I wanted to
have the baby, I was grateful for that. I was grateful for family. I
looked around me and found that there was nobody missing. Everybody was
intact .I could call on family and friends around me. I looked at my
work and I was grateful. Sometimes I just get on the internet and
somebody sends me a message from Malaysia thanking me, for a song that I
did that ministered to them. Someone saying their marriage is still
together just because I wrote a song. I thought about all these things
and I was thankful.
You said you put off having a child for six years and your husband allowed that?
Absolutely, for me and my career making babies has to be something I
would be ready for. We (my husband and I) couldn’t deny the fact it
would have an effect on my career, no matter how you wanted to look at
it. My husband knew the effect the first child had on me so we decided
to space it. Just when he was getting impatient, God made it happen.
Why did you opt for Gospel music? I
have always loved to call my style of music inspirational. When I
started out with Kush, that was the plan and the vision. I believe music
is a responsibility. I have always said so and I just grew up believing
that. I think that music is something that can influence generations. I
can’t imagine myself singing songs that will engender negativity in any
form. I have children and I want them to listen to songs that will spur
them to greater things, not songs that will encourage them to do wrong.
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