You either become a doctor or a lawyer." However, she decided to switch majors and went into journalism and public relations at University of Texas at Austin. Africans don’t really mess with creative careers. According to Wande, she had "an internal struggle with the whole rap thing. Despite this, she initially continued in studying health and sciences, even acquiring a license to be a nurse's aid. She became interested in rapping after a biology teacher allowed her to compose a rap about cellular transport instead of writing an essay or making a presentation. Early career ĭespite this initial interest in music, Wande wanted to be a doctor, and enrolled in a health and science program in junior high school. While at the camp, she also saw a performance by the Christian hip hop collective 116 Clique, which at that time consisted of Lecrae, Trip Lee, Tedashii, and Sho Baraka. She converted to Christianity in seventh grade while interning at a camp in 2009 in Columbus, Texas, a decision for which she encountered opposition from within her family. In sixth grade, she started playing the flute and studied music through junior high school. Her curiosity about God led her to search on the internet for Christian rap, and the first result to come up was the 2006 song "Prayin' for You" by Lecrae. Wande said in April 2020 that she used to joke "that I'd go to Mosque and church". to read the Bible and go with her mother to work so that she could get picked up to go to church. At first she was not allowed to go to church, and then started having to get up at 5 A.M. Most of her family was Muslim, except for her mother, who was Christian. In addition to English, she is fluent in Yoruba. Wande was born in Nigeria but raised in Round Rock, Texas and then Austin, Texas, United States. Her debut extended play (EP), Exit, was released on April 24, 2020, followed by a mini-EP The Decision on December 4, 2020. Prior to that, as an independent artist, from 2013 through 2018 she released multiple singles and made numerous featured appearances on various songs, as well as worked as a music journalist. She signed to the Christian hip hop label Reach Records in 2019, where she had worked as an A&R administrator. Mutiat Yewande Isola, professionally known as Wande, is a Nigerian American Christian hip hop artist, actress and former journalist and A&R administrator from Austin, Texas, United States.
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