Adeola Adeyemo
In the evolving phase of Nigerian music where many artistes are hopping on the fast lane of Hip Hop and Afrobeat genres, Dare Art Alade still remains perhaps one of Nigeria’s longest standing R&B artistes.
Coming from a musical background, he is the last son of Art Alade a famous Nigerian highlife / jazz artiste in the sixties and seventies. Dare’s road to stardom started in 1998 when as a teenager, he was performing at a club where a member of the Cool FM management spotted him and invited him to the radio station where he worked as a presenter for some years. In 2004, he participated in the music reality TV show, Project Fame Africa. He went on to host the show when it made its debut in West Africa.
Dare has dished out his hit tracks including “Sisi Eko”, “Carry Dey Go”, “Fuji” & “More” and has won several awards including the Best R&B Video at the 2009 Channel O Music Video Awards for “Not The Girl”.
In this exclusive interview with BellaNaija’s Adeola Adeyemo, the father of two shares interesting details about his family, career, marriage and valentine.
We love to celebrate Valentine in Nigeria and any major artiste who has the good fortune of staging a show during the season of love would definitely pull a crowd. Dare Art Alade has been creating quite a buzz with news of his upcoming show “Love Like A Movie”, a Valentine concert set to hold this February. When I heard the Abuja based artiste was in town preparing for his concert, I grabbed the opportunity to have a chat with him. His description of what to expect at the concert only heightened my anticipation.
“Love Like A Movie”
In recent times, Nigerian artistes have been staging concerts like it’s going out of fashion. But you’ve been doing music much longer than some of these artistes and this is your first major concert. Correct me if I’m wrong.
We started this many years before people started doing big concerts and taking Eko Hotel and all that. But this is my first in recent times. The first concert I headlined was in 2006. Over the years, we’ve seen what people have done and we’re not going to do what people are doing. It’s a different kind of concert this time around. We aim to raise the bar, up the ante and improve Nigerian entertainment.
Why Valentine? Why did you choose to stage a concert during the season of love?
They call me the king of R&B, is it at the Christmas carols you want me to be singing R&B? This is our period, this is our time and it’s a special time, not just for lovers but also for myself and you’ll find out why on that day. Some people already know but I won’t let the cat out of the bag.
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