Tolu Adesina

Tolu Adesina (aka Tolufame, iamthattolu)

Tolu Adesina is best known as a contestant on  MTN Project Fame in 2010 held in Africa before he signing under Alyhils Record Label and he is associated with Mavins Record label; he is a singer, producer and song writer who hails from Ogbomosho; released music video My Lover ft Don Jazzy (Click here- My Lover) and a whole lots of projects heading our way.

   I sat down with the talented artist and here is what you need to know about him

15 MINUTES INTERVIEW WITH TOLULOPE ADESINA

Me: Who is Tolu?

Tolu: My name is Tolulope Abraham Adesina, Born and raised in Kaduna (yeah!!), I have Northern traits and then my Yoruba. At 11 I knew I wanted to sing, so I started singing in church. At 18, I performed the National Anthem in front Kirk Franklin and other huge gospel artist at the Eagle Square; that crowd inspired me more to strive towards my music career.

Me: Tell me about your experience with project fame few years ago?

Tolu: In 2010, my friend told me about the competition held in Lagos and being a Kaduna boy that has never travelled out of Kaduna, I was reluctant to come to Lagos especially since I have participated and lost in different talent hunts like Set the stage and Bet Sunday.

I auditioned and I believe I can Fly brought me to Lagos for the competition where I met different talented people from West Africa. I thought I would win the competition and not winning again broke me…..I am human after all, so much heart and passion to everything I do.

Me: What’s with the bad boy persona?

Tolu: Lol…how do you mean?

Me: Your Instagram Page (@iamthatolu) is full of fine girls of different shapes and faces….what is going on there?

Tolu: I am all about my female fans, they are my lovers, the ladies appreciate my music and for that I am grateful to them. I appreciate them and they appreciate me so much....I mean my fans opened a social media handle tagged ‘prettyones”…and I tell you, they all rock!! So my music is about appreciating African beauty, what better way than to show the world how pretty they are.

Me: Talking about ‘My Lover”  the video you release a month ago, is there a “ lover” out there?

Tolu:  My pretty ones inspire my writing and my pretty ones are all special.

Me: Okay but is there any special person out there?

Tolu: No my pretty ones are my special somebody.

Me: I am sure you have a lot going right now, please share your next project with us, and what should we be expecting?

Tolu: I do and right now on my Instagram page (@iamthatolu) Je’ mapelle Tolu is something more than just words, its huge and more like my re-introduction to the industry and its titled Je’mapelle 

Tolu ft. Baby fresh and some awesome works in play

Me: who would you love to work with?

Tolu: Entire Mavins, Don Jazzy and hopefully Tiwa Savage

Me: Outside of Mavins, which artist (home and international) would you like to work with?

Tolu: I would love to work with Wizkid, I have respect for him and any other successful and talented artist out there and Hollywood  likes of Trey Songs, Chris Brown and Brandy ( I love her)

Me: What’s your take on Domestic Violence?

Tolu: hmmmm….it’s heartbreaking, especially when the violence is directed towards a woman. Women are defenseless compared to men and they blame themselves for being battered and I’m totally against it. I feel the penalty for such should be so grave that they’d thing twice before raising their hands, when our government makes a laws for domestic abuse victims. Everyone knows any kind of power comes with responsibilities, so men should use their power to protect weaker ones.

Me: How will you help the victim?

Tolu: Empower them the way I can, have them talk to someone…and it doesn’t have to be a professional. In a husband and wife situation, the women needs throw out the African norms, sit down and think if being abused is all worth it.

       Perpetrator If I catch someone in the act! I will beat the man to a pulp and then have him arrested; if not I will report.

Me: Thanks Tolu

Tolu: No Thank you

      Clearly, Tolu is a strong-willed and confident person who knows is stuff. My Nigerian people might not appreciate one of his approach to music because most of my people love body shaking songs and forget what true smooth R&B is ,but I appreciate good music . He loves and recognize successful artist and will love to work with wizkid someday. I wish him best of luck and success in his career.