Nigerian singer, Ahmed Ololade, popularly known as Asake<\/strong>, has recounted some of the challenges he faced with show promoters during the early days of his career.<\/p>\n Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that the \u2018Sungba\u2019 crooner, during an interview with Famous TV, credited his resilience and perseverance for his growth in the music industry.<\/p>\n According to Asake, show promoters rejected him because he sang mostly in Yoruba.<\/p>\n The singer said he is thankful to God that he did not change his sound or stop singing in Yoruba despite the earlier rejections.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cHow I got to where I am today is by God\u2019s grace, self-belief, consistency, and endurance. At some point, a lot of people said no to me; they didn\u2019t allow me to perform at shows because I spoke Yoruba. But thank God I didn\u2019t stop, and I kept believing in myself.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNow, look at where I am today. I am so happy for myself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n In related news, the daughter of Fuji maestro, King WasiAyinde Marshall, popularly known as\u00a0KWAM 1<\/strong>, Dami, has debunked rumours of a romantic relationship with Asake.<\/strong><\/p>\n Dami and\u00a0Asake<\/strong>\u00a0recently sparked relationship rumours after sharing a picture of themselves at an event.<\/p>\n Dami captioned the Instagram post\u00a0\u201cMr Money and Mrs Money,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>which sparked\u00a0speculation about a romantic relationship.<\/p>\n However, Dami, in a post via her Instagram page on Monday, dismissed the rumours of dating Asake.<\/p>\n She explained that the picture was from her first meeting with the singer.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nigerian singer, Ahmed Ololade, popularly known as Asake, has recounted some of the challenges he faced with show promoters during the early days of his career. Abia Radio News reports that the \u2018Sungba\u2019 crooner, during an interview with Famous TV, credited his resilience and perseverance for his growth in the music industry. According to Asake, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":241703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[2467],"class_list":["post-241702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-asake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/asake.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241702","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=241702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}