I was quiet because I was in God's waiting room - Nii Soul

Nii Soul, formerly known as Joe of ‘Mentor’ fame, has dismissed speculations that he is struggling with his career.

He says not much has been heard from him musically because he is still waiting on God.

“The reason you’ve not heard too much about me is the fact that there are three stages in these things, there’s the calling, the waiting, and the sending. I’m in the waiting period,” he explained.

In an interview with Doreen Andoh on Cosmopolitan Mix on Joy FM Nii said, he turned to doing gospel because he realised the kind of genre he was doing was contrary to what God called him to do.

Nii Soul now turned a gospel musician, started as an R&B artiste when he came second in TV3’s music reality show, Mentor II.

“After all of these things I felt so empty, I felt like there’s more to what I was doing until I got to know that God didn’t want me singing about ‘the girls’, ‘baby I love you’ and all of that. He wanted me to speak to the souls of mankind,” he stated.

Nii Soul, however, admitted that waiting on God is a very difficult period but believes he is being empowered for greater things.

He predicted that “Anytime God called the Israelites and they waited, and he was sending them, he empowered them so they came back with results. So I’m waiting for that empowerment and when I get out there, trust me, it’s going to be something else.”

Asked what inspired him to take part in the Mentor reality show, Nii revealed that he took part in the show because the genre of songs he did before the show was not receiving airplay.

“Before I joined mentor, I was part of a group called ‘Limelight Crew’ and we were doing R&B and the only time we get to perform was when Bola will put us on some Legon show. We were not getting airplay.”

He continued that, “Then I told my friends that Mentor is huge, the platform is there, so why don’t I just be a part of this competition and when people get to see this face and hear this voice, they might actually accept it and we’ll get closer to a lot of industry players.”

Nii said, after successfully going through the audition, “I realised that all I needed to do was to be in the finals because the longer you stay, the easier it is for people to remember you so I was working hard just to get to the finals and God being so good, I came second. Thank God for a man like Mark Okraku-Mantey who taught us a lot during the mentor days.”