Gyakie’s rise to fame and her lustrous music career did not happen by fluke; she had to endure pressure at the nascent stage of her journey.
She told DJ Edu of BBC Africa in a recent interview that she was usually in tears when she started commercial music because her management was bent on achieving results.
According to Gyakie, she would often cry when more pressure was mounted on her to produce bigger hit songs after her success with Forever.
“If I am pressured or shouted at, I am going to grab a tissue and cry. So, I don’t like to be pressured or shouted at. At the beginning of my career, I would cry at home almost every three days because the pressure was too much. Especially when ‘Forever’ blew up. The expectations were high for me to come out with another hit song,” she said.
She, however, noted that the pressure from management, coupled with that from music consumers, toughened her for the job.
“It’s good when it feels like motivation, but it’s different when it’s different. Also, these negative criticisms that are not coming from a good place… It took me a while to not really let it get to me. But now, I could see anything about me, where the person knows what he is saying is not true. I would be like, somebody should give me some water to drink because the country is already hard,” she said.
Born Jackline Acheampong, the 24-year-old musician released her first-ever single ‘Love is Pretty’ in 2019, which paved the way for another single, ‘Never Like This’.
In August 2020, she shot into the limelight with her ‘Forever’ song, taken off her five-track ‘Seed’ EP.
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