“I Was Kicked Out Of Stage” – Asake Recounts Experience When He Tried To Mimic Legend Fela Kuti

Instead of accomplishing his purpose, the reverse was the case as he was kicked off of the stage.

In his words;

“Before I got the attention, I strived till I graduated from the university. I strived for like [another] two years before people like accept me.

So there’s this performance. I wanted to perform Fela, so I was on pants and saxophone. I packed like six girls on stage. I asked them to be half-naked. You know, one thing about Nigerians is that once people are naked, they just forget about all the thing that is happening and just focus. But these people [at the concert] stubborn o.

Those girls just walked in, then me too. I just walked in majestically as a star boy. I did not know where the first clap come from. The audience was like, ‘No, no, no.’ Everybody, like 9,000 capacity, clapping that they don’t want it.”

Watch him speak below,

Asake opens up on embarrassing day he attempted to perform in pants like Fela

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Fela Kuti is widely known as the father of Afrobeat. He began playing music at a tender age and travelled to London in the 1950s to study medicine.