I Didn’t Even Give Him My Blessing” – Mayorkun’s Mother

Nollywood actress, Toyin Adewale in an interview with City People opened up on her relationship with her son and how she initially held reservations against Mayorkun’s music career.

Adewale said Mayorkun has always been was part of the church choir well growing up but she never know he was going to be venture in to music as profession.

“I never knew Mayowa will go into music. He used to be a junior choir master while in the choir, but never knew he would go this far, because he has always been a very quiet, easy-going person.”

The doting mum admitted to holding back her son back because she was scared and has been in the entertainment industry for far too long.

However, she said Mayorkun’s father convinced her to give him a chance, which she did.

“It was his father who said Toyin, let’s give him a chance, he studied banking in school.”

On her relationship with him, the proud mom noted that she knows the lyrics of his song from and keeps a close tab on him.

“I follow and monitor him all the time. In fact, if he has the power to send me out of Instagram, he would have done that since, because I am always on his page every day.”

The actress also said she has a lot of screenshots on her page which were taken from Mayorkun’s Instagram page.

“If I show you my phone you will see different pictures that I screen munched from his page, once I see anything unusual, I snap and call his attention to it, he will be like mummy, please give me a breathing space.”