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In a fresh interview on Beat FM in Lagos, Davido shared information on why he accepted the World Cup closing ceremony gig a few days after his only son David Ifeanyi Adeleke Jr. died.
He discussed how he had to begin rehearsals just one month after the death of his son, how it impacted him, and how the performance went.
Just a few days after his third birthday, Ifeanyi passed away after he drowned in a diving pool. Davido and his fiancée Chioma Rowland gave birth to Infeanyi in Atlanta in 2019.
Ifeanyi was submerged underwater, as first noticed by the cleaning staff. A source from the Davido family says that the tot was in the water for a long time. So, they pulled him and rushed him to the hospital, but unfortunately, it was too late.
Davido, who just released his latest studio album dubbed Timeless, is quoted as saying;
“Crazy. This was like a year ago when we did the FIFA draw and performed the official theme song. I think they had like 5, 6 official theme songs, but that was like the first one. And uhm, you know, the vibe was cool then, but I didn’t really look at it like, Oh, they’re going to call me back to do the World Cup’ or stuff like that.
And then later on, when it was getting closer to the World Cup, I think they started talking to my management, like, Yeah, we want David to come down. But me, I always thought, Is it the main one? Like is the main one?’
I didn’t even know it was like the main one until like a week before going to Qatar. Then they sent, 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 and got down. Bro, in the production, it was like we hadn’t done any work at all. Yo, that performance woke us up; whenever we get back to performing, we’re about to do some crazy stuff. Amazing experience.
Shoutout to the Qatari people, who are 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.”
Source: TwinkleTag.com
