Who Knew? See What Davido’s Dad did to him When he Decided to Go into Music

Like the typical Nigerian dad, Davido’s father was not happy he was going into music.

Davido, being the son of whom he is seems to have always had it going smooth with him. His decision to go into music, however didn’t go down well with his dad.

Financial Times reports that Davido’s dad’s nerve was only finally calmed after the hit, Dami Duro becam the biggest in Africa. Davido mad this known in an interview with Financial times where he revealed that his dad went as far as arresting people seen with him on any billboard.

Excerpts from the interview below.

My dad didn’t like me doing music!” laughs Davido. “If he saw my face on a billboard, he’d arrest everybody at that show! But when I made the song ‘Dami Duro’ [2011], it became the biggest track in Africa; it’s saying: ‘I’m the son of a rich man, you can’t stop me, and people love me.’ It now feels good for dad to see that music can take me this far.”

The singer described his music thus;

“In Nigeria, we all mix sounds together and collaborate; it’s natural,” He said. He described his music as “afrofusion”, with elements including hip-hop, Ghanaian high life, South African kwaito, and R&B. “It’s been generalised as afrobeats, but I have songs that sound like afropop, afrotrap . . . ”

Asked about how Afrobeats has inspired the works of international stars like Drake and Beyonce and why the western mainstream is just being awakened, OBO said;

It’s the internet and social media,”

I’m telling you, Nigerian people have a supportive force, and an amazing energy. Beyoncé and Kanye felt it on their visits, but Nigeria has always been very big on entertainment; when I was little, a big artist would come over to play every Christmas.

Now the music industry in Nigeria is like a government ministry; it’s worth billions. There are so many artists in Nigeria that you might not have heard of, but trust me, they’re doing well.”

Davido is an award winning singer who has won several awards including the MTV EMA’s award for Best Worldwide Act.