I ran away from home because of my passion for music – Davido

Famous Afrobeat star, David Adeleke popularly known as Davido said that he once ran away from his family’s Mansion to sleep in a friend’s studio because of his passion to do music.

Davido revealed this in an interview on REAL 92.3 FM, which went viral on Tuesday.
The ‘Unavailable’ crooner went on to say that people once attributed his successful music career to the wealth of his dad.

He said, “What was difficult for me was coming out from a wealthy background because people say his dad is in money, but they later agree that the boy is actually good after several records.

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Davido said, “People don’t really know about my past like the early part of my career. What was difficult for me was coming from a very wealthy background. Everybody just felt like, ‘Nah, his dad…This is money’. I dropped several records before they had to agree like, ‘Okay, he is actually good.’

“People love the grass to grace and was down but now I’m up story, but I was never really been down bad.
“We had a $60 million house in Nigeria that I ran away from and was sleeping in my friend’s studio because I know they won’t let me out again once I get home.”

According to the singer,  he refused to go back home because he would be locked up to be stopped from doing music.