Fido Speaks: The Journey, The Struggles, The Olayemi Album

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00:00Hello and welcome to another exciting Guardian Music episode and today we're joined with none

00:13other than Mr. Fido himself. Thank you for joining us. Thank you brother, nice to meet you too.

00:19Alright, you're looking fresh my bro, looking sharp. How's the vibe? The vibe is always classic

00:26and just the normal and usual. What's the normal and usual like on the day to day?

00:33On the day to day it's just me looking fresh and always making sure that Fido comes out unique.

00:40Okay, I mean congrats again on your album, Olayemi. I get it right? Yes, that's my name.

00:46That's your name? Yeah. Okay, so what does that embody for you? It speaks more about my story

00:56um my struggles and my name which is Olayemi talks more about wealth as well because when you

01:03ask for the meaning of Olayemi means wealth befits me. So um and when you listen to the um

01:09projects you would hear me speaking more about money, money, income, income. Yeah so as I was

01:17saying it talks more about my um struggles, my story, how I started um my journey in the music

01:23um industry and uh so much so forth. Yeah so let's let's bring it back to when you actually started

01:28it. When did you start this um move towards music? Um I started that was a very long time ago

01:37I would say when I was 14 years at that time so I knew I could sing too because I was at the choir

01:43at the first square gospel church at that time and I was eternal backup singer and so I got a menu that

01:51yes I had the talent in me. Where was that? Where was that? Where was that your church choir? My church

01:58it was at Matogun where I live my room, Matogun state here so that's when I joined the choir and um

02:05since then I had the zeal to get make music and do music. Have you even tried girls for music?

02:11No, I had to switch, I had to switch but yeah I am today. But jokes aside when was that moment when

02:20you decided you wanted to do this full-time? Full-time that was when I when I left in Ilaro I

02:26studied um public administration at Ilaro at Polytechnic so the moment I left I used like a year at home

02:33so the other year my dad was like go back for the mission. I was like no I don't want to go back because I just

02:38decided that I was going to venture more into the music so I went to Peft Institute to study music

02:44technology yeah. And so were you recording? Were you putting out music? Yeah at that time no at that

02:50time I was recording I was building myself with my guys then sound keys, shoe keys and the rest so

02:58that face was the face for me building myself to this stage that I am today. Okay was that when you got

03:05the name Mr. Fido? No the name was from my secondary school. Mathematics, my mathematics teacher

03:11at that time I just got into the school it was a new comma in the school yeah so my first time in this

03:18class you know when I stepped inside the class and he saw me I was like ah this guy look like

03:25seven up character at the cartoon so that's how the game didn't just stop to me.

03:30He was like if he didn't fit and then I was tiny too. Oh god he didn't get to it. Yeah so that's how I got to do it.

03:37I mean were you the kind of kid who performed in school who liked to make music? Yeah I was always this jovial

03:44type of person I do make people laugh. At that time I even thought I was going to be a comedian because

03:50at that time when I say little things people just laugh. So yeah I'm the type of person that I get when people

03:55around me it's always form to this lively yeah. I mean you broke out with Awolowo and now we have

04:03like a slew of records where you know you're nationwide you're known nationwide like give us the backstory

04:09behind Awolowo for instance. Awolowo there's a lot involved though because it's involving the herbs you

04:16understand what I'm trying to say. So Awolowo um it's like a spiritual song for me like I said it follows the

04:23hips if that's the right word for me to say on tv. Nah we get it we get it. Yeah so um

04:29the inspiration just came I was with my producer he played the beats on me and the moment I heard the

04:36beats I just picked from there. So it was a freestyle? It was not a freestyle I just took my record

04:44industry and inspiration just came. So it's divine yeah. How do you make music typically if you want to

04:53um I would say it's to me it's easy for me. I make music sometimes it might be the beat that would

04:59take me to get where I want to be and sometimes I just be an inspiration that I have already gotten

05:06already yeah and I speak to my producer we talk on how to he gets great and get great whatever sound to

05:12match what I've created in my mind and we make it happen. What about Joy is Coming? Ah Joy is Coming

05:19coming was um a song I did with my guys we were having a music camp at that time

05:28the producer came to the moment he slammed

05:30like joy is coming so actually I never wrote the song the moment I heard the beats I just knew the beat was for joy

05:41yeah so how do you enjoy the ideas for your songs because as you're dropping fistiles you know you're

05:47dropping messages as well yes what inspires you it's divine it's god I don't know how I do it sometimes

05:52sometimes I see myself and I'll be like you know how do you record all this you know forget unique

05:58songs and music that you have but I tend to know that it's just imbued it's called

06:03thank you so what about for joy is coming yeah yeah biggest father degraded that's um a massive um feature

06:13on joy is coming from i've been like a very close um boy to vado since i ventured my journey into the

06:25music industry and um the relationship has been yeah unrepresented okay that's how we call connected

06:32okay because you know your songs are very diverse there's a song called money moves yeah there's a

06:38song called joy is coming and you hear the sound you know that they're quite distinct so what types of

06:44music would you say you were listening to when you were growing up and how did you like shape this

06:49i listen to all genres of music hip-hop power and b fuji in one palace at that time i like

06:57i'll give you some notes um the likes of sony adee villa um at that time two face

07:06for the rappers then lee wing two pack and um and those and those and those yeah so so when you were

07:16trying to just like shape your own sound right now yeah what did you start with i would not say i started

07:25with one particular journey to me i just feel like when i create my sound it's just natural it's just

07:31you get it's unique yeah it's just video sound that's for me it's my sound it's afro it's african so

07:40a little bit of down so on your down so yeah like i said it's just natural so i mix

07:45both joints together i might come with um an arabic flow and i switch it to an alphabet flow you

07:54understand yeah so it depends on how the um sound gets to me yeah can i just do my part okay i mean

08:03speaking on you know doing your parts you know pushing your career and all of that there was a road

08:09between you and some of your formatting interface mp uh i know you don't want to touch much i don't

08:15want to talk i don't want to talk about it because it's been in the past and now we are in the future

08:20how do you feel about it now and how do you feel about the rest of the journey yeah i feel blessed i

08:25feel um i would like to put the word i am grateful to god for the journey and this has been going

08:34easy for me and yeah and there's more to come more greatness to come okay so speaking on collabs

08:41you are some of the people that are still on your radar to work with within the industry

08:44there are loads and loads of artists i'm willing to work with in the future from an upcoming project

08:50to come i can't list name from that because i really don't know where i was gonna be or sure i have

08:57people that i'm planning to work with okay in the future yeah okay so when you're not making music

09:03what is you do typically up to

09:08it's always music okay so from morning to night music all day well i mean for you if you're not

09:15okay if i'm not making music i'm chilling with my guys either playing the video games or either

09:20researching or that's but most of the time with music so okay yeah i mean um i would have asked you

09:29to sing something for us for i would actually need you to sing something for us

09:34and you heard it from mr fido himself and just to wrap up um what's the vision for your career moving on

09:59yeah the vision is higher than what i can do vision to as well because i see myself

10:04tapping into that global space making sure that yes i be a good example for alphabets worldwide and

10:12yes the vision is wider than what i said i should have mentioned because you're missing you performing

10:18around like you know across nigeria and so many other places so like uh are you going to headline any

10:25show this year like anything if you do live if i would be headlining any shows you guys will get

10:31to know that's okay i mean i'll keep you guys updated my plans all over the world you'll get

10:36updated thank you okay and thank you so much for joining us you're welcome keep spending more love

10:41with the music it's been fun all right and that's it on guardian music today with mr fidu shared his

10:47journey shared his inspiration and he shared what he's about to do and over the things he's doing right now

10:53so thank you and stick with us follow us and share this

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