Nigerian musician Timi Dakolo recently shared his journey to becoming a professional singer.
Despite starting music as a hobby, Dakolo explained on the ‘On The Record’ podcast that he transitioned to a full-time career after winning the first season of Idols West Africa in 2007.
“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 wrote 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’,” he recalled.
