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About Davido

David Adedeji Adeleke was born November 21, 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia and grew up between the Atlanta suburbs and Lagos as the youngest of his father's children. His father, Dr. Adedeji Adeleke, founded the Pacific Holdings conglomerate and later Adeleke University in Ede, Osun State; the family name carries serious weight in Nigerian business and political circles — his uncle, Ademola Adeleke, has served as governor of Osun State. His mother, Dr. Veronica Adeleke, was a university lecturer and passed away in 2003 when David was ten. He attended the British International School in Lagos, briefly enrolled at Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama to study business administration as his father had laid out, and then quit to pursue music — moving back to Lagos, sleeping on producer Kayswitch's studio floor, and eventually enrolling at Babcock University to earn a music degree his father agreed to fund as a compromise. The single Dami Duro broke nationally in late 2011 and the debut album Omo Baba Olowo followed in July 2012 on his own HKN Music imprint, named after his older brother Adewale Adeleke and the family business. Skelewu in 2013 and Aye in 2014 turned him into a household name across West Africa; Fans Mi with Meek Mill in 2015 was the first significant Davido-meets-American-rap crossover; the period from 2017 onward — If, Fall, Assurance, Like Dat, Fia — was the run that broke him properly internationally. Fall in particular became, for several years, the longest-charting Nigerian song in Billboard history and a slow-burn streaming monster that picked up steam in the Caribbean and Latin America two and three years after release. He launched Davido Music Worldwide (DMW) as a label and signing house, bringing in Mayorkun, Dremo, Peruzzi, Liya, and others; the imprint became one of the most consistent star-development pipelines in Lagos. A Good Time, his second studio album, arrived in November 2019 with seventeen tracks built around If, Fall, Blow My Mind with Chris Brown, and Risky with Popcaan; A Better Time followed in November 2020 with thirty cuts and features from Nicki Minaj, Lil Baby, Chris Brown, Nas, Hit-Boy, Mayorkun, Tiwa Savage, Sho Madjozi, and others — the album was deliberately structured as a who's-who Afrobeats-meets-American-rap-and-R&B statement. In late 2022 he stepped back from public life following the death of his son Ifeanyi; when he returned in 2023 it was with Timeless, a more reflective record built around Unavailable featuring South African amapiano artist Musa Keys, Feel, Champion Sound, and Bop. Unavailable became the standout — the log-drum amapiano break in the chorus crossed amapiano fully into mainstream Afrobeats and the track ran for months on radio across Africa, the UK, North America, and the Caribbean. 5ive landed in 2024 as his fifth studio album, blending Afrobeats with amapiano, dancehall, and pop crossover tracks aimed at the US and UK markets. He records and tours under DMW with manager Asa Asika and the long-running production partnerships with Speroach Beatz, Magicsticks, Kiddominant, and Tekno still shaping the sound. The Davido brand sits well outside music too: a Puma sponsorship deal, brand partnerships across Nigerian telecom and banking, and a public profile that runs from charity work through the David Adeleke Foundation to a high-visibility marriage to Chioma Rowland that has been chronicled in tabloid detail across Nigerian and diaspora media.

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