Gospel musician, Joseph Oscar Mettle, popularly known as Joe Mettle, has disclosed that he was forced to sell waakye at a point in time in order to make ends meet.

The 2017 Ghana Music Award’s Artiste of the Year made this known on Accra-based Joy FM while shared his journey to stardom.

“I did a bit of selling cards, so I sold phone cards around the time MTN recharge cards were in the system. Those were the days a sim card was sold for a hundred Ghana cedis. I did that for a while and I was like; you know what, this is not for me and so I needed to go on with my life.

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“Then, my family was not that wealthy so we had to work to survive and I worked with my mum for a couple of years. She was into small trading, so she sold small waakye, small rice and at a point, I had to do it because, the people loved it when I was there because I was always willing to sort them out by giving them more food for less money.”

The ‘Onwawani’ hit maker further indicated that, “but with time, I was like I can’t do these things anymore because, God had started revealing himself to me, giving me songs, giving me ideas and I was like; okay, let me just try and that was when I started (ministry).”

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The musician currently has a new single out titled ‘Bo Nooni’.