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Soul musician, Darey Art-Alade, says it took him about four months to put the Love Like a Movie Concert together. Darey said he would not discuss the amount the American reality television star, Kim Kardashian, was paid as appearance fee, adding that people are entitled to their opinion.
It would be recalled that the news that the American was paid $500,000 raised lot of controversies.
He said, “Who knows how much they were paid? Actually I cannot talk about how much anybody was paid, so who cares? Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but we had a great show and that’s what matters at the end of the day. It was all from a dream. We just wanted to do something different; something to push the envelope and be creative. “Thanks to everyone who supported us in cash and kind and all the hard work. We succeeded. The concert took about four months from the scratch, it was totally an original production.”
Although a graduate of Creative Arts Department, University of Lagos, Darey said that his decision to go into movies would be a management decision.
“I am a trained actor technically from the University of Lagos, apart from the degree I have in music. I am not going into acting quite yet, I have been approached several times to do movies. I have been in stage plays but I have not done any films. I have been on stage, theatre is where I am comfortable. I have been in musicals, operas, but for films, I am not sure. That’s a management decision,” he told Saturday Beats.
Ever the busy bee, he hinted that he has been working on his artistes and music.
“Since then, it has been work. There are other artistes on Soul Musik record label. Mo’easy is there now. He just released a music video. I have just released a music video as well. I have been working on more songs, developing other projects we have been working on. Work continues, sometimes you don’t make noise while you are working,” Darey said.
Dare Art Alade is the last of the five children of Olapeju Art Alade, wife to Art Alade a famous Nigerian highlife / jazz artiste in the sixties and seventies. His older siblings are Abimbola, Taiwo, Kehinde and Bolaji and he hails from Lagos state, the former capital of Nigeria.
Dare's road to stardom started in 1998 when as a teenager, he was performing at B Jez Nite Club on Victoria Island, Lagos State. It was there that a member of the Cool FM management spotted the talent in him and invited him to radio station, where he (Dare) groomed him in all aspects of radio production and marketing.
Dare grew in Lagos, where he resided with his mum, and shuttled between the CoolFM radio station and University of Lagos where he was a student in the Department of Creative Art.
Apart from playing music on piano and drums, Dare also loves riding all kinds of motorbikes and keeping dogs.
The entertainer
Dare works fulltime as a DJ, VJ, events compere, band member and voice-over artiste. Quite a wide portfolio for this talented Nigerian who creativity and bubbly personality pervades everything he does.
He is a DJ for 96.9 CoolFM, a Lagos-based radio station where a hosts various shows.
Dare is a member of an Acapella group called ChordWebs that is fast gaining popularity in Nigeria they sing in churches as a group and individually.
Dare also presents a musical show on Channel O called 'Y'ello. This show is aimed at promoting the best of Nigerian entertainment, music video's and interviews. It is a collaboration between MTN and Scharff Weisberg Media.
As a voice-over artiste and compere, Dare has hosted several shows including the "Dunhill Symphony of Fire", "Peugeot New Look Fair" and most recently the "St Moritz Style Selection Show".
If there is to be one phrase to describe Dare, he is most definitely an all-round entertainer
MNet's Project Fame Academy
Dare is one of the two Nigerian musicians chosen to represent the country in MNet’s Project Fame. The Project Fame profiles the progress of 16 students choosen from South Africa and across Africa as they learn and grow in the Fame Academy. The students are expected to be able to play musical instruments, write their own songs, sing and perform.Since entering into the academy, Dare has set himself apart as a young, multi-talented musician who is hungry to be the next big thing in Africa.
One thing is for sure, whether he wins the coveted first price of one million rand or not, Dare has already proven himself to be a star on the rise. Champagne anyone?!
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