Top Afrobeat star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has revealed that during the ordeal of losing his son, Ifeanyi Adeleke, fellow music superstar and rival, Ibrahim Balogun, a.k.a Wizkid was one of the people who spoke to him on phone every week to console him.
Making this known in an interview on Hot FM Morning Show in New York on Saturday which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York, Davido stated that his rift with Wizkid, which was on for 12 years, ended abruptly during their weekly conversations.
Davido, who is getting rave reviews at the moment after releasing his new album ‘Timeless’, said: ‘With Wiz (Wizkid), over the years we had a rift for 12 years and this continued up until recently he chatted up and I am seeing the positivity.
‘I am seeing the change in the industry a little bit because everybody is calming down, especially with my situation; the tragic situation that happened, he called me every week since it happened.’
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Africa Today News, New York recalls that the CEO of Davido Music Worldwide (DMW) had stayed away from social media and took a break from his music career over the death of his son late in 2022. He fully came back recently, with his disclosure of his tough times and announcing that he had grieved and back and better.
During this ordeal of more than three months, he got formally married to his fiancee, Chioma Rowland, the mother of his deceased son.
The Fem crooner revealed that the support he got from sympathisers aided his recovery. He said several persons, including artistes and politicians, flooded his Instagram with direct messages during the incident.
He said: ‘Personally, with me, the support I got from people was one of the things that helped me stand up again.
‘At some point, I couldn’t open my Instagram for weeks. One day, I just checked it and I saw messages from every kind of person in the world, from politicians to sportsmen, to other musicians, to presidents, I was like, ‘you’re fine, you see everybody is rooting for you.’
‘That was one thing that really made me strong enough to stand up again, get back in the studio and do what I love.’
Davido had recently dropped his much-awaited album, ‘Timeless’ many months after leaving the scene.