Nigerian singer Timi Dakolo has reflected on his path to become a professional musician.
The crooner of “Great Nation” clarified that music was not his first career but rather a pastime.
In a recent episode of the podcast “On The Record,” Dakolo stated that after winning the first season of Idols West Africa in 2007, he made the decision to pursue music as a career. In his own words:
“I still see myself as an accidental musician. Yeah, I used to sing in choir. I used to just like that I sang. The first idea of music was during morning devotion.
“Then, we started singing street songs. We used to have notebooks where we write songs and they were girls to impress. So music was not something I thought I would do professionally. It was after Idols that I decided to do music professionally.
“I said to myself, ‘Okay, we are here. Sometimes you meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.”
