Rex Omar says he stopped going to church because they refused to support his career

Renowned Ghanaian highlife musician and producer, Rex Omar, has disclosed that he found himself at odds with his church community when they failed to acknowledge and encourage his musical aspirations.

According to him, he stopped going to church at an early stage of his career because the church left him to his fate when he needed funds to record a song, which later became a hit.
The ‘Abiba’ hitmaker in an interview on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Wednesday, August 16, 2023, made known that he had a very tough time convincing his dad to venture into music as a career due to the perception that artists at that time were poor.

In the words of the crooner, “I was a church boy. I was working with the church. I was always in church, we go to Atwea Mountain for prayers and all these things. So, one day I went to my pastor and said, ‘I want to go to the studio, can you speak to the church board so they can fund my recording,’? Later the pastor told me the church board said the church board says they cannot fund my recording, that [was] the day I stopped going to church.”

“Then I went outside, and I got someone who is a worldly person to fund my recording, and my third recording became a hit, even that recording was a gospel song,” Rex Omar recounted.
The veteran singer was however quick to add that he has a very close relationship with his maker, though he does not go to church.