Oyinkansola Nigerian singer Sarah Aderibigbe, also known as Ayra Starr, was born in Benin on June 14, 2002. Before deciding to pursue a career in music, she started a modeling career with Quove Model Management when she was 16 years old. She shared her first original song to her page in December 2019 after recreating a number of well-known songs on Instagram. She caught the attention of music industry entrepreneur Don Jazzy as a result, and he signed her to his record label Mavin Records.
The Nigerian musician appeared in an exam at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. The inquiry regarding her well-known song "Rush" was made necessary for second-year students in the Department of Marketing and Management.
The lecturer for CMH 221: Human Resource Management reproduced the song's lyrics and gave the students a task to investigate the underlying presumption that young people are only motivated by a desire to make money. The undergraduates were required to answer the first question and any extra two during the exam, which was held in April 2023.
A Kenyan student with the handle @muregzzzz tweeted a picture of the exam paper to Twitter. He was disappointed that their lecturer, who had clearly researched the other components of the course, had decided to base the questions on a song.
This was what he wrote: “Imagine this, you’ve studied the whole semester for a unit depriving yourself of any form of entertainment even music and hujawai skia rush by ayra starr, you walk into an exam room and this is what you see.”
Ayra Starr
In a recent interview with Variety, Sabi Girl, also known as Ayra Starr, disclosed that her success can be attributed to healthy family competition while she was growing up.
“My aunty and my mom made us compete for the tiniest thing. Literally, if there was chocolate, they would say. "Everyone write the best song about chocolate.” If we wanted the TV remote control, we would have to learn every word of a Nicki Minaj song. That’s the type of environment I grew up in.” she narrated
The emerging sensation in the Afropop industry, who in three days signed with Mavin Records, always believed she was destined for greatness.
Ayra's career started when she and her brother released an original song online when she was 18 years old. Her executive producer called her the following day to extend an invitation to the studio. She joined Mavin Records in three days and, with the help of the international R&B hit "Bloody Samaritan," began her career as it is now.
She describes the new word "Sabi Girl" in the interview as someone that's knowledgeable, informed, and skilled at everything. Because "sabi" in Nigerian pidgin means "to know," a "sabi girl" is equivalent to a baddie in American slang.
She discussed how, as a child, her confidence had gotten her into trouble. "As a child, I had a lot of confidence in myself that sometimes got me in trouble. I always stood out in my own way, but it wasn’t about being the finest person in the room, it was just being me."
She continues by discussing the support her family has given her profession and how this support began when she was a little child. She said parents have consistently encouraged her musical endeavors. She says her mother was aware that her brother together with her would pursue music when they were five years old. She pushed them to write music, and when they had a two-string guitar, they figured out how to make it work and serenaded the neighborhood. She said her mother always tells her school came first, and if she went to school, she could sing whatever she wanted.
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