Nigerian singer and performing artist Simisola Kosoko, popularly known as Simi, has opened up about her experience with stage fright and how she manages it.
The ‘Joromi’ crooner revealed that she has a significant history with stage fright, and performing a new song live on stage for the first few times feels like “trying on a new pair of shoes that needs adjustments.”
Simi explained that she needed to allow her brain time to bond with the song to overcome her nervousness.
Sharing a clip of herself rehearsing a song from her latest album, ‘Lost And Found,’ on X, she wrote: “The first few times I have to perform a new song (any song) live on stage is like trying on a new pair of shoes that needs adjustments.
“I don’t know why that is. Lol. Maybe it’s cos I have a history with pretty bad stage fright. Now I have to give my brain time to bond with the song so it can learn to disregard me and my nerves.”
She continued, “Anyway, this night, I kept rehearsing this song (maybe overly so), because it was my first time performing it on stage and of course the nerves came.
“But I have one or two more to go until I get out of the way and my brain takes over lol.”