Nigerian singer, Ikuforiji Olaitan, popularly known as Oxlade<\/strong>, has revealed that his family and religious backgrounds led him to shun smoking and taking hard drugs.<\/p>\n Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that the \u2018Ku Lo Sa\u2019 hitmaker made this known in a candid interview with gospel singer, Tim Godfrey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Afrobeats star emphasised that he is from a Christian and musically inclined family.<\/p>\n According to Oxlade, his music career began in the choir, which shaped his personality and approach to music.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cI don\u2019t smoke. I don\u2019t take drugs. I was a choir coordinator for every age group; children\u2019s church, teen church, the youth choir and the mass choir.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAll my life I have been in the choir. I was raised in a musically inclined family. My grandma is a deaconess and an amazing singer. My grandad used to be a multi-instrumentalist. My mum could dance and sing. I have a pastor in my family. My gospel music writing is actually the best. Gospel music is the best music.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cRegardless of whichever perspective I am viewed, you should know that God is equally blessing me as much as he is blessing you. You can\u2019t tour 40 cities with your debut album if God doesn\u2019t want it to happen. As long as God is ordaining these steps and movements, there is really nothing for me to worry about.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nigerian singer, Ikuforiji Olaitan, popularly known as Oxlade, has revealed that his family and religious backgrounds led him to shun smoking and taking hard drugs. Abia Radio News reports that the \u2018Ku Lo Sa\u2019 hitmaker made this known in a candid interview with gospel singer, Tim Godfrey. The Afrobeats star emphasised that he is from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":239828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[772,1842],"class_list":["post-239827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news","tag-oxlade"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oxlade-2-1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}