Nigerian singer Oludipe David, popularly known as Spyro, has opened up about painful childhood experiences that he says still affect him today.

The singer spoke about his strained relationship with his father. He also recalled the beatings he received as a child.

“My dad would beat you to kill you. I’ll have marks from twenty-something years ago. When you try to bring up the conversation, there are things still very clear in my head, and he acts like it’s nothing.”

Spyro recalls childhood anger

Spyro said being around his father can still trigger feelings of anger. He said he has had to work through the pain on his own.

“You know when you are in the presence of your dad, and there’s this anger that just comes, and you can’t explain it. It is a lot to unpack, but I had to heal on my own. To sort it out, we have to talk about the experience. I can’t just ignore it as if none of these pains happened.”

The singer also recalled how his father allegedly portrayed him to other people. He said his father accused him of stealing.

“My dad would go and tell outsiders that I am a thief, and my dad’s brother had to ask, what did I do to him? Because the way he just paints me sometimes and just tells people about me. He was a pastor, and once his money was missing like this, na me.”

Spyro said his father sometimes gave him gifts after embarrassing him over missing items.

“He will embarrass me, and when he eventually finds what he is looking for, he will buy you milk. What is milk supposed to do to the damage that has been done?”

Spyro recalls painful school incident

The singer also shared a childhood experience involving a cleaner at his primary school.

“There is a particular thing that I talk about, and anytime I talk about it, I just get teary, you know. There is this woman in my primary school, Iya Romoke. She was a cleaner at the school, and one day she called me. She placed her hands on my head, and she had long nails that were peeling my skin, and because I was a child, I couldn’t do anything.

“I went back home with an injury, and my dad asked who did that to me, and when I told him, he said it was a lie. He didn’t believe me. But I kept saying this woman did it, and he said we would go to school the next morning.

“When we went to school, I started pulling back because I was afraid that this person was elderly and seemed to have more power back then.

“I started pulling back, and my dad said I was pulling back because I lied, and we went to the woman, and she said she didn’t do it, and when I got home, my dad flogged me to a state of stupor, and that thing till date broke me and almost turned me into something else if not for the love from my mom and how she was able to balance things up constantly.”

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