Why I Bear My Mother’s Name – Asake

According to him, “My stage name is actually my mother’s. While I was in the cultural group, people used to call me ‘omo Asake,’ which means child of Asake in Yoruba. And after a while, it just stuck. People  stopped adding the ‘omo’ and left ‘Asake.’ I thought it was cool and decided to go by it.”

He explained that while he was in a cultural group people used to refer to him as Omo Asake because his mother’s name is Asake.

Popular singer Ahmed Ololade, known professionally as Asake, has opened up on the reason he is using his mother’s name as his stage name.

Asake disclosed this in Pause Magazine’s Autium 2023 edition.

“It is very important to me, and I am not going to lose it. It is what has brought me this far, and I continue to keep it that way,” he said.

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