Contrary to belief that his rise to stardom in the music industry was seamless, award-winning afrobeats singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has reflected on how he ran away from his dad’s $60 million mansion in Lagos to live in his friend’s studio.
Davido said that his wealthy background does not mean he had it easy being successful in the music industry.
He stated this in a recent interview with Real 92.3 FM, Atlanta.
His words, “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 loves 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 looking at me crazy like ‘Bro, you better go home.’ I said, ‘I’m not going home.”
The singer said he refused to go back home because he would be locked up from doing music.
