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| Davido |
Born David Adeleke in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, he was brought
up in Lagos, Nigeria. Davido has been into music production since the tender age
of 13 while in high school as a member of a trifling music group called KB
International. Following a few self taught lessons in various studios, the
engineering student began to discover the rock bottom of music. “I went to a
music studio and I got fascinated with what I saw the producer doing, so I kept
going back to the studio. I was so young then amongst the people who usually
came around. I was even referred to as the studio rat, because I did asked lot
of questions. So when I felt it was time for me to create my own setup, I used
the money I was saving to establish my own production outfit.”
Maintaining his eyes determinedly on the ball, Davido began
lending his talents to many up and coming artists based in Nigeria including
Dammy Krane, NPZ and more, truly defining the Afro pop and Afro beats sound.
His rise to prominence in the music industry came with the
hit track that was a promo titled ‘Back When’ in which he featured Hip Hop act
Naeto C. In the first week of release, the song had massive airplay across both
Radio and Television stations and had lots of downloads in the Internet. “The
aim of the song was to motivate people who have had trials in life to celebrate
and be merry.”
On social network, Twitter, Davido was trending for almost a
week with his latest single ‘Dami Duro’ which was dropped a few weeks back. The
song has been playing and still currently gaining replays in clubs, radio and
television stations. I also gathered that pretty soon the artiste would be
releasing a remix to the track ‘Back When’ and a video for ‘Dami Duro’ on
December 16.
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| Davido |
Davido has been closely nurtured by the likes of D’banj,
Wande Coal and Don Jazzy, as well as been hyped by new superstars Wizkid and
Ice Prince to be a music genius who has great expectations for the future.
Opening up to me, Davido put in plain words that he has a
celeb crush on Nadia Buari. “She’s a cool lady who knows what she wants and I
desire that. I’m her number one fan and I won’t mind if she’s mine”.
More than just a charisma on a beat, the young man has
executed the skill that has enabled him to do collaborations with Nigerian
music household names, Naeto C, Sauce Kid, Tiwa Savage, Shank, Mo’Cheddah,
Lynxxx and UK act Dotstar. The multi-talented triple threat; singer, songwriter
and producer has performed at major shows from ‘Music Meets Runway’, The
P-Square Invasion Concert to The Koko Concert in London. He is currently signed
to HKN Music alongside B Red and Shina Rambo.
Davido had an advice for upcoming artists who want to make
it to put God first in anything. “Don’t try to copy any one else just do your
own style and if it works for you fine but if it doesn’t, go back to school and
read your book.
Here's also a documentary on Davido
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