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Yemi Alade

Yemi Alade

Nigerian singer and songwriter

Aug 11, 2026

8:44
Mm.
8:44
But I had no plans of really making it a proper career, like the one thing that I would do as my, my source of living.
8:50
I never really considered that 100%.
8:54
But the inspiration to now make it an actual career, it dawned on me when I won a talent show.
9:01
When I became the winner, it just occurred to me that I could actually get more from this hobby than I had actually thought, 'cause it wasn't logical for me.
9:09
We come from Nigeria now.
9:10
Uh, who wants to be a musician at that time?

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22:26
What would you say to her?
15:55
So is there something that African governments are not doing right?
15:58
In the past, one of our biggest problems was piracy.
16:01
As creatives, our creations are our legacies.
16:05
They're our bread and butter, and sometimes there are some people who only get one stroke of genius for their entire life.
16:11
But we are robbed of that in Africa because we don't have systems that protect the artist, preserve the artistry, and elongate it, longevity.
16:20
So we tend to have artists who are big for a period of time and then they disappear.
16:25
But they're alive.
20:30
What would you say to her?
27:56
Apart from shooting
27:57
... yeah, the gun range, rat-ta-ta.
27:59
[laughs] Badi, badi.
28:00
What other plans do you have, or what have you, what adventures have you been up to? Um, honestly, two things, uh, have been happening asides the KQ, um, announcement.
28:14
Mm-hmm.
28:14
The first one is obviously my new song with Bien- Bien ... that's out.

29 MINS LATER

57:27
Mm.
57:27
And I was like, "Oh, there's four of us," and, and, and he's like...

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