{"id":527416,"date":"2025-04-19T15:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/an\/?p=527416"},"modified":"2025-04-19T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T13:35:10","slug":"davido-i-would-have-been-an-actor-if-i-werent-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/davido-i-would-have-been-an-actor-if-i-werent-an-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Davido: &#8220;I would have been an actor if I weren\u2019t an artist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Afrobeats superstar David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has revealed that he would have become an actor if he hadn\u2019t pursued a career in music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nigerian singer explained that he would have worked behind the scenes in the entertainment industry had he not been an artist. He also shared that he is a talented actor and would have considered acting as a serious path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI studied business marketing, so I would\u2019ve always been in entertainment [even if I weren\u2019t singing], but probably more behind the scenes,\u201d Davido said during a recent conversation with content creator Darryl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m investing in a few movies this year. Big shout-out to my director, Dammy Twitch. We have upcoming ideas and series. The African film industry is currently underfunded. So, we\u2019re definitely going to take advantage of that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI can also act. I can really act. I act in my music videos. I acted in videos like \u2018Jowo\u2019 and \u2018Nwa Baby\u2019,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrobeats superstar David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has revealed that he would have become an actor if he hadn\u2019t pursued a career in music. The Nigerian singer explained that he would have worked behind the scenes in the entertainment industry had he not been an artist. He also shared that he is a talented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":527417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"pays":[144],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-527416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"pays-nigeria-west-africa"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527416"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=527416"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=527416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}