Why I Performed At The World Cup Despite The Death of My Son – Davido Speaks

 Despite the death of his beloved son, Ifeanyi Adeleke, afrobeat award wining Nigerian singer David Adeleke, popular known as Davido has spoken out about his historic performance at the FIFA World Cup closing in 2022.

Davido that revealed during an interview with Beat FM on Friday that he did not anticipate the huge opportunity.

According to him, his son’s death left him unsure whether or not to act at the event.

However, he chose to accept the chance because it comes along only once in a lifetime for singers.

“Crazy,” he said. We did the FIFA draw about a year ago and performed the official theme music, and I believe they had about 5, or 6 official theme songs, but that was the first one. And, you know, the vibe was nice back then, but I wasn’t thinking, ‘Oh, they’re going to call me back to do the World Cup’ or anything like that.

And then later on, when it was getting closer to the World Cup, I think they started talking to my management like you know, yeah we want David to come down. But I always thought: is it the main one? Like is the main one?’I didn’t even know it was the main main main one till like a week before going to Qatar.

“Then they sent like yeah, it’s the actual main event and we have to come a week before to rehearse — that’s like a month after my son passed.

“So it was just like ah! Should I do it? But then I was like ah, this is an opportunity that might never come again, and people don’t even get it in their whole career. And I was like man, my son would probably want me to do it. I was like ‘okay, I think I’ll do this one, then probably just disappear again’

“So we went to Qatar, got down. Bro, the production, it was like we haven’t done any work at all. Yo, that performance woke us up like whenever we get back to performing, we’re about to be doing some crazy stuff. Amazing experience. Shoutout to the Qatari people, very loving people. Very loving, caring people. They took care of us the whole time. I feel like that was one of the best places I could have gone after what happened to me.”