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My dad’s money scared people away – Davido Shares Struggles of His Early Music Career

by Idara Inyang
May 23, 2023 | 12:35
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Popular Nigerian artiste, David Adeleke, professionally known as Davido, has revealed that he once ran away from his father`s $60 million family home in Lagos state, to live in his friend`s studio.

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He made the revelation during an interview with Real 92.3 FM, Atlanta while dismissing the belief that because of his wealthy background he didn`t struggle to become a star.

According to Davido, a lot of people make assumptions about him because they don`t really know his past, and having a rich dad was one of the hinderances in his music career.

He said that he had to release a couple of songs before finally started to attempt that he was a good musician.

Speaking further, OBO admitted that there was never a time he was struggling to feed like those artistes who came from poor backgrounds.

Davido said; “People don`t really know about my past like the early part of my career. What was difficult for me was coming from a very wealthy background. Everybody just felt like, ”˜Nah, his dad”¦This is money`. I dropped several records before they had to agree like, ”˜Okay, he is actually good.`

“You know people love the grass to grace story. Everybody love the story of ”˜I was down bad, now I`m up.` I had never been really down bad. But I was passionate about music. We had a $60million-house in Nigeria that I ran away from; I was sleeping in my friend`s studio, hot. They were look at me crazy like ”˜Bro, you better go home.` I said, ”˜I`m not going home.”

The ”˜FEM` crooner added that refused to go back home because he his family would have locked him up in oder to stop him from doing music.

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