{"id":164967,"date":"2026-01-29T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.max1023.fm\/?p=164967"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:22:49","slug":"ceeza-milli-and-ayra-starr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/?p=164967","title":{"rendered":"How Ceeza Milli  and Ayra Starr crossed paths before the industry noticed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ceeza Milli Opens Up on His Early Connection With Ayra Starr<\/h1>\n<h5><strong>By: Gladius Elizabeth<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_164968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164968\" style=\"width: 1242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-164968 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ceeza-e1769682853857.jpeg\" alt=\"Ceeza Milli and Ayra Starr during their early music journey before her Mavin Records signing\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1498\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ceeza Milli opens up about knowing Ayra Starr before her Mavin Records era.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been around <a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\">Nigerian music<\/a> long enough, stories like this always stop you mid-scroll. <a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\">Ceeza Milli <\/a>has revealed that he knew<a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\"> Ayra Starr<\/a> before the spotlight, before the deal, before the world started singing along. And honestly, it feels like one of those quiet full-circle moments the industry loves to hide in plain sight.<\/p>\n<h2>How Ceeza Milli First Met Ayra Starr<\/h2>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\"> <strong>Ceeza Milli<\/strong><\/a>, their connection wasn\u2019t even music-first. <a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\">Ayra Starr<\/a> was his<a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\"> ex-girlfriend\u2019s school daughter.<\/a> Just life doing its thing. From there, they started working on music together, casually, organically. No pressure. No big promises. Just a talent meeting opportunity in a small room somewhere.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_164969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164969\" style=\"width: 1242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164969\" src=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/staray.jpeg\" alt=\"Ceeza Milli discussing his early connection with Ayra Starr before Mavin Records\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1656\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayra Starr during her early music journey, before mainstream success.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Ceeza Milli on the Early Studio Days With Ayra Starr<\/h3>\n<p>Back then, <a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\">Ceeza Milli <\/a>says<a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\"> Ayra<\/a> was recording with him, learning, growing, and finding her sound. He even posted her on his <a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\">social media<\/a> at the time, the kind of post people scroll past without knowing they\u2019re watching history warm up. She wasn\u2019t signed to his label, but the support was real.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wizkid No fit Sign Everybody | Spend 3months for Jail &amp; Discover AyraStar B4 DonJazzy - Ceeza Milli\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zouQoHeethI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Ceeza Milli Praises Mavin Records and Don Jazzy<\/h3>\n<p>In the same breath, <a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\">Ceeza Milli<\/a> gave props to <a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\">Mavin Records<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\"> Don Jazzy<\/a> for what they\u2019ve done with <a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\">Ayra Starr\u2019s career.<\/a> And that part matters. It\u2019s not bitterness or chest-beating. Just respect. Seeing someone you once worked with win, and acknowledging the system that helped them soar.<\/p>\n<h2>Ceeza Milli, Ayra Starr, and the Bigger Music Picture<\/h2>\n<p>Stories like this remind you that the<a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\"> music industry<\/a> is smaller than it looks. <a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\">Ceeza Milli<\/a> crossed paths with Ayra Starr early, and now both names sit comfortably in conversations about <a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\">Nigerian pop culture<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/\">growth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keep it locked on Max FM for more real music stories, behind-the-scenes moments, and honest conversations that shape the culture beyond the charts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ceeza Milli Opens Up on His Early Connection With Ayra Starr By: Gladius Elizabeth &nbsp; &nbsp; If you\u2019ve been around Nigerian music long enough, stories like this always stop you mid-scroll. Ceeza Milli has revealed that he knew Ayra Starr before the spotlight, before the deal, before the world started singing along. And honestly, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,43],"tags":[214,215,216,217,200,218,219,210,220,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-164967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afrobeat","8":"category-entertainment","9":"tag-afrobeats-stories","10":"tag-artist-development","11":"tag-ayra-starr","12":"tag-ceeza-milli","13":"tag-celebrity-interviews","14":"tag-don-jazzy","15":"tag-mavin-records","16":"tag-music-industry-insights","17":"tag-music-industry-stories","18":"tag-nigerian-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaedoonline.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}