Musician and politician, Rex Omar has said he defied his father’s advice not to pursue a music career when he was growing up. The politician in an interview said his father who was a better musician than himself, advised him to only choose music as a hobby and not a career.
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According to him, his father’s reason was that musicians are not revered in Ghana and are relegated to the background. Desperate and passionate to do music, Rex Omar stated that he went ahead to pursue a music career but now regrets that “his father was right.”
“I believe that my father was right that is why when I got to forty years old, I decided to put music to the second burner and go into business and then also the administrative side of the music business.
“I am very disappointed and I will tell you one of the reasons why I got very disappointed.
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“I believe that if there are ten people God has granted the gift of music, I’m one of them, I have not been able to come up with even ten percent of what has come up in me,” he said on the 3FM Sunrise, Thursday, June 20.
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He recounted a horrific experience in his career back in the day which left him down-spirited and probably caused his exit from the music scene.
Rex Omar recalled how he was dejected by Ghana’s embassies in some countries while he was on tour with other international artists who received support from their embassies. “When I was dealing with the international record labels, I had the opportunity to do a tour with South Africa and a few international artists. We were going to five countries. In every country, we go
to, by the time we get to the airport, the embassy of that country has sent people to pick up their artiste from the airport with branded vehicles and all.
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