“You work for them, they don’t pay the money, that’s why we decided to leave Libya, we can’t live our life like that with my son, I just want to keep my kid safe, that’s why I left,” said Owolabi. UN figures show more than 1,000 migrants are believed to have drowned or gone missing while attempting to reach Europe from North Africa this year. Azize said the crossing was worth the risk to escape Libya. “I wanted to come to Europe, it wasn’t easy while I was on the water… if I must die on the water, it is better than returning to Libya,” he said. Owolabi said she had been terrified and wished she had stayed in Nigeria. “I didn’t know the big sea… I was crying, I told the people ‘let’s go back’ because I was scared.” “I didn’t know it would be like this, if I had known this I wouldn’t have come, I would have gone back to my country.”
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And now it’s being played absolutely everywhere. Do you plan on touring behind the record?
Yeah, definitely. Right now, I’m touring with ‘Nsync and hopefully in July I’ll be touring also.
How did you hook up with your record company, Jive?
I had an entertainment lawyer in New York, because when I was really young I auditioned for the Mickey Mouse Club but I was too young. So instead the casting director told me to go to New York and when I went I did, I met up with this entertainment lawyer. And, after two years, I auditioned again for the Mickey Mouse Club and I did that for two years, and after that, I went home and was, like, a normal kid again. Then, I was like, “Y’know, I’d like to get back into the entertainment business.” So I sent the entertainment lawyer a tape of me singing and some pictures and he sent it to Jive Records and they signed me.
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