Minister OJ has revealed that “the song I didn’t like on my album, Koso Na Koso [Keep On Keeping On]” helped him get his wife.

“It’s [ironically] the song I didn’t like on my album,” the star singer-songwriter noted, speaking to Nana Romeo on Okay FM.

He fondly explained his wife and her fellow singers at Resurrection Power, Amsterdam, Netherlands, were learning the song “and the cassette was given to her to listen and learn it”.

He said because his wife was taken to Europe when she was young, she was weak in speaking and understanding Akan/Twi. In her zeal to understand the song, she called a number at the back of the cassette which put her in contact with the record producer, “who explained to her I was a student at [University of Ghana] Legon, and gave her my number”.

“I’ll never forget this. It was 2004. I went to Big Ben at [Kwame Nkrumah] Circle. I had a call from her, and she mentioned her name. I readily told her, ‘I love your voice’. Yes, her voice enchanted me, I have to be honest,” OJ confessed.

He said he asked the woman to excuse him for five minutes, after which they would resume the call. He revealed he spent the said time praying.

“I had no girlfriend or fiancée, and judging from my first song, it was clear I’d surely be great. So, I told God I needed someone who would love me genuinely while I had not yet entered my great future,” he explained.

He said he knew choosing a partner after he had made a name for himself “would be a difficult choice because you’d have women in Canada, US, Ghana [and all over interested in you] and if care is not taken, you’d marry a woman who would not help your career”.

He highlighted without seeing or knowing anything about the woman on the phone, he said it “in my heart I’d marry this woman”.

He footnoted he would not advice anyone to emulate this intuitive spontaneity because “it might be specific to my situation [only]”.

OJ said he informed a friend called Afia who was in the United States of America about the peculiar instance, with Afia remarking he was a strange person.

He would soon ask the woman who was to be his wife for pictures. The first one showed her in makeup but he requested for one which showed her without makeup. He explained he was being cautious being mindful of the seriousness and permanence of marriage.

The Gospel star lightheartedly said he took his wife through many tests, including getting her to show a video of herself walking about.

“I took her pictures and showed them to my friend Afia, explaining this was the woman I had found but I wanted another woman to evaluate her beyond what I saw as a man because I didn’t want to marry her and later have women insult her [over her looks]. Afia approved but I told her I had already made my choice,” he went on.

Looking back over his “15, 16 years of marriage,” OJ said, “it’s been good”.

“It was the song Koso Na Koso. If not music, what else can do this? Music gave me a wife, children, a future, and peace. If you diligently create music, it proves profitable in so many ways,” he asserted, reflectively.