One encounter with Ludare as fondly called wired you to another realm completely as revealed in this chance meeting with him at 16 Octave studio in Lagos.
‘Dare Olateju, the real name is the major force in Juju music today as he continue to revolutionise and rebrand Juju music from what it used to be, to music of all seasons and people.Though his father, emperor Wale Olateju was a force to reckon with in the advent and acceptability of Juju music genre, who never encouraged his son to take after him but now a great artiste by providence, revealed how he left a lucrative job as a senior manger to take into music.
‘Music is part of me, my father didn’t encourage me to take after him but he wanted me to continue as a choir boy instead of learning how to play musical instrument’Having being a senior manager in a multinational company was enough to discourage him but remains undaunted. ‘I was never disturbed in becoming a Juju musician with a different’
What exactly distinguished him from other Juju musicians?
‘We are revolutionising Juju music, Africanize the music for every season and people’. We make discipline our watchwords as a band, while commitment is uncompromise’.Where do you then see the band in the next five years? ‘We are taking over with our own brand of Juju music, because we take music more seriously and we never joke with the standard’.
Continue, Ludare said, ‘our forthcoming album will break the rules in so many ways, which include but not limited to the standard and revolution’