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I paid £55,000 to wait for seats to be filled at my January concert, Davido reveals
Nigerian music star, Davido, has revealed that he had to pay £55,000 at his January concert that held at the O2 Arena for the show to start late.
The “wonder woman” crooner explained that the £55,000 was the cost for a 55-minute extension to avoid performing to a half-filled hall.
Davido said he’ll rather pay the fine than experience negative publicity which spreads faster.
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The singer made the revelations during an interview with Hot 97 FM. Davido said,
“I was scared though, because … first of all, you know how we Africans do, we’re always late, we take time.
“They said I gotta get on stage by 8, and I said alright and then by 8 o’clock my boy come tell me that brother you can’t go on stage right now and I say what you mean, he said brother everybody is still walking around, I looked at the stadium, half empty. I was going crazy.”
“I’ll pay two hundred thousand pounds in this place. Me, the way I know my people, people want me to fail.
“If I go on that stage that place is half empty, somebody will take that picture and that picture will go father than anything. I waited till that place was filled.
“I waited for about an hour and thirty before we started. I’d rather pay the fine because people don’t want you to win. Negativity goes way farther than positivity.”
The 26-year-old singer further said his global success began when he decided to focus on Nigeria.
“When I was out here (in America) for like eight months, nothing really happened. But it was when I decided to finally go back home. When I got back home to do what I do, then people started sending me snaps that yo, I’m hearing your songs every day.”
Davido is currently on a tour in the United States.
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