People mistake it for a guy's name or a nick name. Gift is my real name and that is where I got the G in Muma Gee, forget the fact that I added double 'e' to it, just as it sounds Gee but the G is just the G in Gift. For the Muma, the Jamaicans will call mother Muma and papa Pupa. The Muma in my name means 'do good' in my language.

In "I am single, apply within – Muma Gee" by Funmi Salome Johnson on nigeriafilms.com, October 25, 2008: On the meaning behind her stage name