Singer Timi Dakolo explains how he became a professional musician by accident  

Talented Nigerian gospel and R&B musician Timi Dakolo has revealed how he veered into the murky waters of the music industry by accident after partaking in a music contest.

Timi Dakolo recalled that he first considered music to be a hobby rather than a vocation. He said that he decided to pursue music professionally after winning the first season of Idols West Africa in 2007.

The musician who made the revelation in a recent episode of the “On The Record” podcast said that he sees himself as an accidental musician because it was something he never thought he could do professionally.

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He said, “I still see myself as an accidental musician. Yeah, I used to sing in choir. I used to just like that I sang. The first idea of music was during morning devotion.

“Then we started singing street songs. We used to have notebooks where we wrote songs, and they were girls to impress. So music was not something I thought I would do professionally. It was after Idols that I decided to do music professionally.

“I said to myself, ‘Okay, we are here. Sometimes you meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.”

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