Shopé talks testimony, new EP, and more

“At this stage in my life right now, I don’t have all the answers, but what you see my do, what you hear me say on stage, you know it’s real because I’m actually to live this thing now.”

Shopé grew up in Nigeria, a very religious country, and both of his parents were proclaiming Christians, but he only saw one of them living out their faith. “I never really remember my parents ever being on good terms. There was always arguing in the household.”

He says that he grew up with an indifference to the gospel, partly because of how he did not see it in the relationship of his parents. “I believed in a God, but wasn’t too sure about this Jesus thing.”

“[As a young teenager] I didn’t really wild out too much externally, my own battles were internally, but at that age I was thinking, ‘You know what, I think I’m going to start exploring a little bit. Do X, Y, and Z, this and that.’”