Nigerian music producer and singer Timi Dakolo reveals that his grandmother raised him after his parents abandoned him.
The winner of the inaugural season of Idols West Africa in 2007 said shortly after his birth that he was abandoned with his grandmother by his then young parents.
In his words;
“My parents, I don’t know why they were doing knacking at a very young age. They were very young so they didn’t know what they were doing,” he said.
“When they had me they were like ‘Let’s go and see your grandma’ Then they dropped me with her and ran away because they were too young and didn’t know what to do with me.
“I don’t think my mother was up to 20 years old when she had me and my dad was probably in his early 20’s. They were childhood sweethearts, then they left each other and he went back to Ghana.”
