“I took a huge risk, I didn’t know how to do any other thing; alternative music was and is the only thing I know how to do.” Adekunle Gold has said of his music career.
The singer, who made his breakthrough with his single, “Sade”, told Premium Times in an interview that he had been part of a band before he decided to go solo.
He said before he started his career he had wanted to create sounds that he was comfortable with.
“Starting out, I wanted to embrace a sound I was double sure of. I started out with a song I was comfortable with irrespective of whether people were going to like it or not.”
“I didn’t know but I was going to do ‘me’ because I have always believed that difference sells. And if am coming into an already saturated market what am I bringing that is different?”
He stated that he knew that to get the attention of the audience he had to offer something different from what the ready-made artists are doing.