Microsoft founder and billionaire, Bill Gates has praised Afrobeats for changing the world of music.
The billionaire, who is in Nigeria to meet with the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, while speaking at event acknowledged the impact Afrobeats has made.
Bill Gates revealed that when his daughter, Phoebe Adele heard he was coming to Nigeria, she told him he was lucky because he would get to see Burna Boy and Rema.
The Bill and Melinda Gates founder who didn’t know who they had, said he had to Google them because he has only heard of Davido and Wizkid, whose performances had left him impressed”.
“Afrobeats from Nigeria are popular everywhere and when my daughter. When my daughter Phoebe heard I was coming to Nigeria, she said, “You’re lucky because you get to see Burna Boy and Rema, so I had to look them up…. because I’m so hip.
But I remember the last time I was here, I got to see Davido & Wizkid perform”.
Bill Gates has not been picked up at the airport by a President but I have – Davido
Years back, Davido had gushed over the number of Presidents whose contacts he had on his phone and how he had even been picked up at the Airport by one of them, whereas the former richest man in the world Bill Gates had never had.
Speaking about the highlights of his career in an interview with a French fashion magazine, L’Officiel, the Fem singer, Davido said, “It is a couple of things. It’s cr@zy landing in a country and getting a presidential welcome. I remember landing in Rwanda and the president came to pick me up himself. I’m like, ‘What’s going on’? I know Bill Gates doesn’t get picked up by the president. Those kinds of incidents make me feel really good about myself and good about what I’ve made myself to be. Knowing that I have access to a president I can talk to. Even now, recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of coup d’états and military regime takeovers. I know a lot of these presidents personally. I’ve performed for them.
“They get elected as the hero and the power just changes them. That’s why I keep telling myself, ‘Do I think I ever want to get into politics’? It feels like one is the good guy until one sits down on that seat and everything changes.
