“The President of Rwanda came to pick me from the Airport himself”-Davido
David Adeleke, aka Davido, in an interview with a French fashion magazine, L’Officiel basked in the euphoria of certain benefits he has been opportuned to enjoy because of the relationship he has with quite a number of Presidents.
Speaking about the highlights of his career, Davido said, “It is a couple of things. It’s crazy landing in a country and getting a presidential welcome. I remember landing in Rwanda and the president came to pick me up himself. I’m like, ‘What’s going on’? I know Bill Gates doesn’t get picked up by the president. Those kinds of incidents make me feel really good about myself and good about what I’ve made myself to be. Knowing that I have access to a president I can talk to. Even now, recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of coup d’états and military regime takeovers. I know a lot of these presidents personally. I’ve performed for them.
They get elected as the hero and the power just changes them. That’s why I keep telling myself, ‘Do I think I ever want to get into politics’? It feels like one is the good guy until one sits down on that seat and everything changes.
Sometimes, I wish I could just call them and talk to them before stuff like that happens.
Music-wise, (the highlights are) selling out arenas in (different parts of the) world. I remember going to the O2 Arena (United Kingdom), Madison Square Garden (New York, United States of America), and Barclays Center (New York) as a kid. It’s amazing selling out those places.”
On if he would love to change anything about his life, the award-winning singer said, “I don’t know because I feel everything happens for a reason. I have been through so many obstacles that I feel helped to shape into the man I am now and the name I have now. I don’t know what advice I’d give to myself, but when people do ask me for advice, I tell them, “Just be true to yourself, pray, make good music and hope stuff works out. Also, be good to people. If you make it, help your brother, help your friend from the hood that sings too’.”
The Nigerian superstar recently announced that his second even concert to be held at the o2 Arena in London will hold next year.
In his words;
“Feels like just yesterday we made history. We’ve done it before… Now let’s do it again! Your boy back! LONDON you can call me Santa with the amount of surprises we got planned on this one 02 Return FULLY LOADED!
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On Sunday, 27th of January, 2019, history was made as superstar singer – Davido sold out the 20,000 capacity concert venue, O2 Arena which is a huge feat to achieve for any artist. This further underlined the dominance of Afrobeats to the world as evidenced right now.
The DMW head honcho shared the stage with other artistes on the DMW roster – Mayorkun, Peruzzi, Dremo, Yonda & Idowest. Rapper, Zlatan Ibile also took to the stage on the night.
