David Adeleke, better known by his stage name Davido, is a Nigerian afrobeats musician who recently opened up about leaving his father's $60 million house in Lagos to live in a friend's studio.
In a recent interview with Atlanta's Real 92.3 FM, Davidi said this and added that due of his affluent upbringing, most people felt he didn't have to work hard to become famous.
Davido said, “People don’t really know about my past like the early part of 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.”
Davido said he refused to go back home because he would be locked up to be stopped from doing music.
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