Nigerian hip-hop star Teniola Apata, popularly known as Teni, has disclosed that she learned the Yoruba language from YouTube.
The Informant247 gathered that the 31-year-old singer, in a recent podcast episode of Zero Conditions, revealed that even though her parents are Yoruba, she learned the language while living in America by watching YouTube Yoruba films.
She said, “Do you know how I learned to speak Yoruba?” she said. It was at the time I visited America. I learnt it from YouTube. I was watching Yoruba films like mad.”
Teni also said in the interview that she started drinking alcohol in 2021 and that she started consuming alcohol merely “for fun.”
She claimed that up until then, she didn’t smoke or consume alcohol.
Teni won Rookie of the Year at the 2018 Headies Awards and Most Promising Act to Watch at the 2018 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. She also won Best New Artist at the 2018 Soundcity MVP Awards Festival.
In addition, NotJustOk ranked her eighth on its list of the 10 Hottest Artists in Nigeria. In a significant feat in her career, on October 2022, Teni was conferred a Nigerian National Award – Member of the Order of the Niger (MON) – by Nigeria’s former president Muhammadu Buhari.