Esther Smith has said she was nearly aborted by her mother.

She made the exclusive revelation while speaking to Nana Romeo on Accra 100.5 FM’s Ayekoo Ayekoo, Thursday, August 29, 2024.

Romeo had asked if she regarded her musical abilities a thing of divine endowment or human skill.  

“At 8, I was with a Methodist choir full of my mother’s age mates. Despite my age, I had a mature voice to sing alto. This, and other things, tells me I was born with this talent,” the multiple award-winning singer-songwriter responded.

In an unforeseen twist to the conversation, the Kumasi-born Gospel music legend recalled a divine prediction made about her life after her mother attempted to abort her.

“My mother was a schoolgirl when she became pregnant with me – I’m her eldest child. She nearly aborted me at the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital because she was petrified for her father’s reaction to the pregnancy,” Esther Smith said.

She noted her mother, Yaa, was the only child of her parents.

“While she was on her way to hospital to abort her child, her mother’s sibling met her and intervened,” Esther Smith continued.

According to the UK-based singer, her mother took different kinds of medication to abort her pregnancy but it all failed.

She said a pastor told her mother “the child in your womb, will become resourceful to Ghana” even though he did not specify the means.

“It was when God start elevating me that my mother revealed these things to me,” Esther Smith noted.

“I told my mother, if she had aborted me, I would have taken her life also,” she laughed in a moment of dark humour.

Esther Smith has countless hit songs of conviction, admonishment and motivation. She has utilised genres like Highlife, Jazz, R&B, Hiphop and Reggae to convey her Christian messages of .

After 10 years abroad, she has returned to Ghana with the Esther Smith Live Concert. After a successful Kumasi edition, part-two of the concert takes place at the Perez Dome, Perez Chapel International, Dzorwulu, Accra, Friday, August 30.