By Benjamin Njoku
Veteran actor, Ayo Lijadu, who delved into music last year after releasing his debut single, ‘Seun Rere’, has revealed why he took him a long time to actualize his dream of becoming a musician.
The actor, who’s best known for his role as Christopher St. John in the popular television series, “Tinsel”, decided to kick start his music career at 65 years, revealing that he had put on it hold for over thirty years.
Lijadu hails from a family of musicians and artistes, prominent of which are his older sisters, the popular Lijadu twin sisters, who dominated the female music scene from the late sixties to the late eighties), and his legendary cousins, late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka.