{"id":6396,"date":"2024-06-08T18:30:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2024-06-08T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T18:30:06","slug":"my-mother-wanted-the-police-to-arrest-me-because-i-decided-to-do-music-olive-theboy-recounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=6396","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My Mother Wanted The Police To Arrest Me Because I Decided To Do Music\u2019 \u2013 Olive Theboy Recounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winner of the \u201cAfrobeats Song Of The Year\u201d award at the 25th edition of the TGMA which came off on Saturday, June 1, 2024, Olive Theboy, who is known in private life as Joel Ofori Bonsu, has shared some details of how he struggled when he decided to pursue music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the successes he has chalked in the music industry after be became a mainstream artist in 2023, Olive Theboy has become one of the few young artists who is the favorite of many music lovers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with Nana Romeo of Accra FM fame, the \u201cGoodSin\u201d hitmaker revealed that the journey has not been an easy one at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He disclosed that at some point in time, his biological mother wanted the police to arrest him because he was absenting himself from school at Opoku Ware Senior High just so he gets time to record his songs at the studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-d49f1721d132099f2474b606cb2a47ed ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lZYEH7EMB3c?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Olivetheboy emphasized that at the time, his mother could not understand why a brilliant student like himself who was reading science at the time, would want to literally waste his time on music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked how they feel now about his decision to pursue music, Olive Theboy mentioned that they have given him their full supoort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI released my first EP in 2021 \u2013 that was when I was in school \u2013 after senior high school. They were expecting me to be in school but I was in the studios. I didn\u2019t even tell them, the next thing they heard, I had released it,\u201d he narrated, adding: \u201cIt came with a lot of threats. They wanted to arrest me, my own mom\u2026.They wanted to frighten me but like I said, it was not pleasant at the beginning. It was after a while we went to talk to them trying to convince them. Right now, she\u2019s a proud mom,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, Olive Theboy says he is a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science &amp; Technology (KNUST) where he is studying Metallurgical Engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he has currently deferred the program to focus on his music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of the \u201cAfrobeats Song Of The Year\u201d award at the 25th edition of the TGMA which came off on Saturday, June 1, 2024, Olive Theboy, who is known in private life as Joel Ofori Bonsu, has shared some details of how he struggled when he decided to pursue music. 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