{"id":126362,"date":"2025-11-09T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126362\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:00:09","slug":"i-would-rather-sell-plantain-than-switch-to-secular-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126362\/","title":{"rendered":"I would rather sell plantain than switch to secular music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scott <\/a>Scott Evans is an urban gospel artiste<\/p>\n

Urban gospel artiste Scott Evans has opened up about his approach to music and fame, stating that he would rather engage in petty trading than venture into secular music.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview on Hitz FM on November 9, 2025, the \u2018Holy Father\u2019 singer said he is not under any pressure to create hit songs or make money, insisting that his mission is rather to spread God\u2019s message rather than chase hits or financial success. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s no pressure on me because I’m just serving a king (God) and I’m relaying his message to the people. My focus is to make sure the song gets to people who need his word. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf it gets to one person, there’s a party in heaven. I’m okay. I’m not perturbed. I’m not pressured. I’m not enthused. I’m not fighting things. No,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

I spent about GH\u00a2200,000 to produce my ‘100 Percent’ song – Scott Evans<\/a><\/p>\n

Asked if he would consider switching to secular music if it would guarantee him fame and money, he firmly replied, \u201cIf I get a chance to be a secular artiste, I’d rather be a plantain seller. Yes, I’ll sell plantain on the street rather than becoming a secular artiste. There’s nothing attractive in it for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

His comments come on the back of cases of some gospel artistes opening up about pressures to create hit songs in order to compete with secular artistes in the music industry.<\/p>\n

ID\/AE<\/p>\n

Watch the promo to GhanaWeb’s latest documentary, which uncovers the evolution of \u2018kayamata,’ an exploitative practice fueled by love charms and manipulation, titled, \u201cThe Dark Side of Kayamata,’ below: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Evans is an urban gospel artiste Urban gospel artiste Scott Evans has opened up about his approach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-126362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}