On account of the activities of the CAC Good Women Choir, Mama became well ![]() She is a gospel singer and leader of the CAC Good Women Choir, Ibadan, a group that became popular in the late 70s, 80s, and 90s across the South West. She is deeply religious and you can’t get to hear about her, excepts when it comes to her work. By nature, Mama Deborah Adebola Fasoyin is a very quiet and easy-going woman of God. But at 80 she still lives a good life with her kids. She was 80 a few days ago and she was celebrated. But if they have the mind of extorting people, and taking money, it won’t work.Mama Deborah Adebola Fasoyin, who sang the popular Odun Nlo Sopin song in 1979 is in a happy mood right now. So gospelers of today, if they want to preach the gospel through music, yes. We don’t take money, we don’t rely on money. When we started we didn’t depend on money. When people say they want to go into music, I used to tell them it was because of money? If it is because of money, it will fade away. What would be your advice to today’s gospel artiste? with the word of God, you are good to go. He will renew your spirit every day in the Bible. When you pray, continue to ask for the holy spirit. I don’t know how God did it, and I don’t know how He used to do it. I eat Amala, Gbegiri, Abula, and I married Ibadan people. ![]() If you want to know the type of food I eat, I’m a native of Oyo town. Is there any particular food you eat or any of your routines that did the wonder? “It is the grace of God and nothing else. What lifestyle did you adopt that keeps you this agile at 82? Because songs are taken from the Bible that is why they remain evergreen. And the word of God is evergreen and becomes new every day. If you read it, it will work in your life. If you read it today, if you read it tomorrow, it gives you another meaning that will work in your life. Since you have been reading the Bible, have you ever gotten tired of reading the Bible? The word of God is new every day. “There is nothing that has kept my songs up there if not for the Holy Spirit. Most of your songs stand the test of time. From September to December it always trends. In the 70s, when the year was winding up, if you went to any revival of CAC, you would hear people singing the song. The popular song “Odun lo sopin” will be 43 years old this year. Tell us a bit about the popular Album “Odun lo sopin”. What the holy spirit tells us to sing is what we sing. And it is what the spirit tells us to record that we record. We submit totally to the word of God before we go to the studio at all. But now, I don’t think our gospel musicians these days border on praying or fasting or reading the Bible. Whatever inspiration we have is what we put into releases. Before we record, the difference is we go to the studio, we have to pray and fast and look at our environment. The Bible is a two-edged sword that pierces any soul. All our songs are extracted from the Bible. Before we go to the studio then, we read the Bible, we pray and we fast. There is a great difference between gospel singers of our time and the ones making waves today. What is the major difference between gospel songs of those days and the ones sung today? I don’t know why God wants it so, but it’s God. Below are the excerpts:Īt 82, what has kept you this long as a gospel singer?īeing this vibrant and active at 82 is through the grace of God. In a chat with City People reporter, JAMIU ABUBAKAR, she advised the new generation of gospel artists on how to go about preaching the gospel of Christ through music. ![]() She loves to be addressed as sweet sixteen to tell that she is truly young at heart. Many people are marvelled and quest to know how the veteran musician keeps fit at that graceful and what worked for her and her contemporaries in the industry as their music top the chart of evergreen Gospel songs of all time. At 82, veteran Gospel Singer, Evangelist Deborah Adebola Fasoyin fondly called “Mama Odun nlo sopin” still Dazzles on stage, keeping her audiences on their toes to praise God Almighty.
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