Lasun Alagbe
Perhaps if death knew how endlessly devastated star artiste, Davido, would be, it would have spared his tender son, Ifeanyi.
But death, which is adamant and destructive as ever, took the boy last year when he drowned in the father’s swimming pool in their Banana Island, Lagos home.
At almost all encounters, Davido keeps mourning the boy. Even on the Father’s Day, he expressed devastation despite the fact that God has blessed him with other kids. Such is how strongly he is attached to Ifeanyi.
He has, however, explained how he was able to come out with bright songs in his ‘Timeless’ album:
“I miss him every day, there’s tears coming out of my eyes every morning, you don’t have to see it,” he said.
“I look at myself in the mirror and I said apart from it just being about me, I know how many people love me, I know how many people are depending on me.
“My son up there is looking down at me. Apart from me being strong for his mom, which is my primary responsibility, I have to be strong for the world.
“A lot of people thought the album was just going to be a lot of sad songs, we gave them bangers on bangers.
“My son is dancing and my mom is dancing in heaven. So, for people to see that it’s possible to stand up again and be able to work, it’s only God.
“Those were one of the things that and my wife relied on, God is real. Then everything just aligned back, we performed better, business is better.”
