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Renowned Ghanaian Gospel artiste, Esther Smith, has disclosed that her mother nearly aborted her.
She shared this touching story in an interview with Nana Romeo on Accra FM.
If not for the intervention of her grandmother, the veteran Ghanaian Gospel singer said her mother would have aborted her at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi after trying different methods earlier which were unsuccessful.
“My mother wanted to abort me. On the day, she was going to KATH for the abortion. Her mother suspected something and asked where she was headed and started following her around,” Smith divulged.
The ‘Odiyasem’ singer averred her mother later confessed about what she wanted to do.
“Even my father who didn’t even want me, when he realised that my mother wanted to abort me, he stopped her.
“She had taken a lot of drugs to help with the abortion but none of them worked,” she revealed.
Before her birth, Esther Smith said a pastor told her mother about the impact that she [unborn Esther] would be making on the country.
Lo and behold Esther has contributed her quota to the growth of Gospel music in Ghana—and she is grateful for being saved and the prophecy coming to pass.
Talking about how her music journey started, she recalled ‘Ewurade Wo Din No’ was the first song she wrote.
“When I was 14 years old, I used to go to church with my aunt and joined a Methodist choir somewhere in Kumasi,” Smith posited, referencing the Tanoso Methodist Church Choir. “I was the youngest in the choir.”
“We moved to House of Faith Ministries where I joined Voices of Faith at the age of 16. I started to write my own songs – at the age of 16,” Esther Smith further stated.
