My father influenced my fear of failure - Spyro

Afrobeats singer Spyro has attributed his struggles with fear of failure to his father’s negative utterances during his childhood.

Spyro, in an interview with Frank Edoho, revealed that his father’s constant criticism made him internalise the belief that he was a failure, leading to a persistent fear that plagued him.

“I thought I was going to die broke. I always had this fear of failure. And my dad contributed to that. He took every opportunity he got to always tell me that I am a failure, so I had the fear of failure because I had internalized it,” he recalled.

According to him, the fear was so overwhelming that it affected his academic performance, and he struggled with poor grades in secondary school.

However, Spyro said his life took a transformative turn when he developed a personal relationship with God.