VIDEO: If I weren’t a musician, i’d be a Journalist

VIDEO: If I weren’t a musician, i’d be a Journalist — Davido

15th May 2025

Afrobeats superstar David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido at The Breakfast Club

By Hannah Johnson

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Award-winning Afrobeats megastar, David Adeleke, better known as Davido, has revealed that if he hadn’t ventured into music, journalism would’ve been his calling.

Speaking in a recent interview with Atlanta’s 96.1 The Beat which started trending on Thursday, the With You crooner explained his love for media and press engagement, something he admits he does more than most of his peers.

Davido said, “I like promo, I like conversations. A lot of people don’t know that I studied marketing apart from business management. I like to market myself, I love to talk. If I had a podcast, I talk for like three to four days [laughs].

Davido said he believes that interacting with the media is an essential part of being an artist, “I just feel like it’s part of being an artist. A lot of big artists don’t do press but I do because I can talk. But some people just don’t want to talk. When people meet me, I like to have conversations, I like to know things, I like information. Even at home, I’m also researching. If I wasn’t doing music, I would definitely be in journalism.

“A lot of people in my position would just sit down and let everything work for them. People be asking me why I have the most followers, it’s because I’m working.

“I know how hard Beyonce will work with all the money she got.”