Nigerian singer, Ahmed Oloade, known professionally as Asake has revealed why he switched from being a dancer to a singer.
The 24-year-old singer revealed this in a recent interview with ABC News.
He stated that poverty made him choose a music career.
As a good dancer, the sole career couldn’t fetch him enough money as he wanted, so he added song making it.
The ‘Mr Money With The Vibe’ crooner recollected his early exposure to music by his dad—an encouragement that led him to become a singer.
He said:
“My parents used to play me a lot of classical Songs. They love listening to songs. The kind of father I have is the one that will wake up in the morning and have one cigarette then loud music.
“At the end of the day, I feel like I can actually sing. Then I added music to it. Maybe because I know how to dance then I know how to bounce on music. I actually don’t want to be a musician in the first place. I just wanted to dance. It feels like water. I love everything that comes with dancing.
“But at the end of the day, after dancing I fell in love with having money too. Then I started thinking about it, is dance going to give me the kind of money I want?”
