Saturday 18 January 2014

Ouch That Gotta Hurt!: SOUL E SAYS Affair With Queen Ure Was a Misadventure


HIGHLY TALENTED SINGER, SOUL E, COURTED SUCH INFAMY THAT LASTED WHILE HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH OLDER LOVER, QUEEN URE, BLOSSOMED. LIKE STAR-CROSSED LOVERS, THE OLD FLAME WENT OUT TOO SOON AND THE YOUNG MAN IS TAKING A SECOND SHOT AT MARRIAGE. SOUL E SPEAKS TO LANRE ODUKOYA of THISDAY NEWSPAPERS ABOUT HIS MUSIC, REGRETS AND MORE


LIFE IN NEW MARRIAGE…
It is a beautiful thing. Marriage comes with responsibility. So many things change about a man’s life. Human beings respect the marriage union. When a young person is married, he becomes a man. So, I am excited. I am married to a wonderful woman who understands me. I call her my best friend before I call her my wife.


ALL ABOUT MARRYING SECRETLY…
Well, the press has not been friendly with me in that aspect. My wife is a reserved person and she appealed to me to have a private wedding. Ironically, we witnessed a crowd of over 1,000 people. Where they came from, I don’t know. I purposely did not make noise about my wedding because I wanted to separate my career from my private life.
WHY MY COLLEAGUES DIDN’T MAKE IT TO THE WEDDING…
I wanted it so. I have colleagues but not friends. We only meet at shows. I don’t have celebrity friends who we visit each other at home and interact with our families. There weren’t any of my colleagues at the wedding. We only had family members and well-wishers. Yet it was as if the whole Asaba people came all out to celebrate with me.
HOW I MET MY NEW WIFE…
We met through facebook in October, 2008. Ever since then, we have been five and six even till now. We actually got married in court two years ago. We only did the traditional marriage a few weeks ago. The attraction was her motherly attributes. She didn’t mind all the bashing I was getting from the media. After God, it was her next because she was the only person I turned to for succour. She is understanding, patient and slow to anger. This is a girl that never knew what a club looked like because of her Christian upbringing. I would just say that I am blessed to have her as a wife.

ABOUT THE FAILED MARRIAGE TO QUEEN URE…
She was a mistake. I can repeat that for you. There is no reason, she was just a mistake. Yes, I was in my right senses when I embraced the affair and I take full responsibility for my actions. But I insist that she was a mistake. It is like one of those mistakes everyone has made sometime ago in their lives. Everyone has made make mistakes including you (reporter). Ure was one huge mistake.
We were together just for one year. To be precise, it lasted just nine months. What made the difference was that it was over-publicised by the press. It was so over celebrated that people thought that we had been together for 20 years. It got to a point, I had to ask her ‘why all the noise?’

HOW I FELT ABOUT THE BUZZ…
Of course, I never liked it. I can’t remember Ure and I paying anyone to hype or publicise our relationship. Whatever they wrote about us was basically a paparazzi job; they followed us to the saloon, mall and outings. It was like the Kanye West and Kim Kadashian romance drama.

ABOUT THE LOVE VILLA CHURCH URE AND I RAN…
It was all Ure’s idea. Let’s be real, if you are dating a girl, you support her vision. She told me that she always wanted to start a ministry. This was something she nursed before we met. At that point, I was her fiance. But because I was in the picture, what people read and heard was that Soul E has started a church. Well, all this is now in my past.

SNATCHING QUEEN URE FROM PASTOR CHRIS OKOTIE…
Take a look at me and Pastor Okotie. Who between us looks like the person who can snatch something from the other? (Laughs). I am his boy and he is like my father. He is everything bigger than me and I am no match. That allegation is false. I have a lot of respect for Pastor Okotie and will continue to do so.

WHY URE AND I NEVER HAD A CHILD…
(Laughs) Ure is very fertile and so I am. We are not God that gives children. We were just together just for nine months.

WHY THE MARRIAGE FAILED…
This is a personal vow that I made to myself. I do not intend to break that promise now or in the foreseeable future. It is a secret that will go with me to the grave. Even if she speaks, I’d make no rebuttal. She is free to but I would have no response whatsoever to her.

IF WE RUN INTO EACH OTHER...
We don’t talk. When you are trying to be pleasant with someone and you get funny attitude in return, what do you expect. The Bible said that be wise as serpent and harmless as dove. I don’t go where I am tolerated but celebrated. I would rather keep to myself and leave my dignity intact than to make myself and object of ridicule. I enjoy respect and adoration from my wife and that is enough for me.






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