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Asake’s biography: age, real name, net worth, where is he from?

Asake is a rising singer-songwriter from Nigeria. He gained public attention for his 2020 hit Lady . He is also famous for his songs, including Omo Ope, Palazzo, Mr Money and Peace Be Unto . Asake’s biography has all the fascinating facts you would love to know about him, including his career progress and personal life.

Asake has been in the music industry since 2018. His music career was inspired by Nigeria's most famous artists, such as Wizkid, Olamide , and Davido. He released his debut studio album, titled Mr. Money with the Vibe , in September 2022. The singer is currently signed to YBNL Nation and Empire Distribution.

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Asake’s biography

The Nigerian entertainer was born Ahmed Ololade in Lagos State, Nigeria, where he was raised. He is a Nigerian national of African heritage. His parents are Muslims from the South-Western part of Nigeria. Asake’s father is a Lagos-based businessman, while his mother is a former teacher.

After completing his high school education , he enrolled at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Theatre and Performing arts.

How old is Asake?

The Nigerian singer is 28 years old as of 2023. When was Asake born? He was born on 13 January 1995. His zodiac sign is Capricorn.

Asake is a Nigerian afrobeat singer and songwriter. He began his career as a dancer specialising in cultural dance while in high school. He was also a drummer and a member of his high school’s musical band.

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Asake professionally began creating music in 2015, fusing elements of Hip Hop, RnB, Afrobeat, and Fuji to form his sound. He later became a backup singer in Nigerian comedian and singer Broda Shaggi's band and collaborated on the song Star in 2019.

The singer rose to stardom after releasing his hit single Lady in 2020. He also gained further recognition for the single Mr. Money , followed by a remix with Zlatan and Peruzzi. In February 2022, he released his debut extended play, Ololade . The EP's lead single, Omo Ope , featured Nigerian superstar Olamide and became Asake's biggest hit.

On 8 September 2022, he released his debut studio album Mr. Money with the Vibe . The album included the hit singles Terminator, Peace Be Unto You and the Sungba remix featuring Burna Boy.

Since the beginning of his career, the afrobeat musician has won a number of awards and recognition, including The City People Music Award for Best Collabo of the Year 2020 and the City People Music Award for Popular Song of the Year 2020. He is signed to YBNL Nation record label and Empire Distribution since 2022. Below is a list of some of his songs:

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• Don't Hype Me
• Peace Be Unto You
• African Something

What is Asake’s net worth?

The rising Nigerian singer has an alleged net worth of between $1.2 million and $1.5 million. He primarily earns his income from his music career.

What is Asake’s height?

The rising singer stands at 5 feet 11 inches or 180 centimetres tall. He weighs approximately 132 pounds or 60 kilograms.

Fast facts about Asake

• Who is Asake? He is a rising Nigerian singer and songwriter best known for his single Lady .
• What is Asake's real name? His real name is Ahmed Ololade.
• Where is Asake from? He was born in Lagos State, Nigeria.
• Which tribe is Asake? He is of the Yoruba tribe.
• What is Asake’s age? He is 28 years old as of 2023. He was born on 13 January 1995.
• Who is Asake’s wife? The Nigerian singer is neither married nor dating anyone at the moment, therefore, he does not have a wife. He has not discussed his romantic life publicly.
• What is Asake’s net worth? The entertainer has an alleged net worth of between $1.2 million and $1.5 million.
• What is Asake’s height? He is 5 feet 11 inches or 180 centimetres tall.

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Asake's biography documents all information you need to know about him. He gained prominence in 2020 and has been topping charts with his songs such as Lady and Terminator . The artist is currently signed to YBNL Nation and Empire Distribution.

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Asake Biography: Age, Songs, Net Worth, Girlfriend, Record Label, Lyrics, Wikipedia, Wife, Instagram, Cars, House, Phone Number, Albums

Ahmed Ololade (born January 13, 1995) is a famous Nigerian musician who is known professionally as Asake . He is a singer and songwriter loved by millions of Afrobeats fans for his vocal prowess and catchy song phrases.

He broke out in the industry when he dropped the 2020 single, Lady . He rose to stardom after being signed to YBNL Records by the label boss, Olamide . Another song that increased his presence was Mr Money .

He released his debut EP, Ololade Asake , which was a commercial success internationally. He is one of the shining stars in the Street Pop and Afrofusion music scenes.

Ahmed Ololade Asake known professionally as Asake Music is a fast-rising Nigerian singer and songwriter born in southwestern, Nigeria.

He hit the limelight with the release of his viral single, Lady which received massive responses from several online media and top celebrities. The Nigerian born Lady crooner had to repost his freestyle from the likes of Sydney Talker , Tunde Ednut , NastyBlaq , Broda Shaggi and a countless number of others.

Early Life & Education

Asake was born to the family of Mr. and Mrs. Ololade on the 13th of January in 1995. Days after he was born into the world, his parents organized a naming ceremony to celebrate his birth. He was given the name Ahmed Ololade .

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He hails from the South West region of Nigeria and belongs to the Yoruba ethnic group. He was born and raised in the city of Lagos with his family. He comes from a Muslim household and was presented with the same faith. Growing up, his father worked as an entrepreneur while his mother was a teacher.

Asake began his journey into the artistic field as a dancer. As a young boy, he loved to dance and was very good at it. He specialized in cultural dance, spending his free hours practicing a dance to improve his skill. As a high school student, he performed at school events, thrilling his schoolmates and staff members with energetic cultural dances. It was from dancing that he got the nickname, Asake.

Although Asake loved dancing, he also had a soft spot for music. Gifted with a sonorous voice, he often thrilled his close friends and classmates with originally composed songs and covers of popular songs. He decided to infuse singing with his dancing because he wanted to be a better entertainer. On the side, he was also a drummer and a member of his school’s music band.

Singer, Asake was born in the late 1990s to Yoruba tribe parents. He hails from the southwestern part of Nigeria.

The talented singer was brought up in Lagos State, where he had most of his childhood experience. Asake is in his 20s and still very much fresh in the Nigerian music scene.

He studied Theater & Performing arts at the esteemed Obafemi Awolowo University , Ile-Ife, Osun State, where he had his degree.

Asake started his music career at a very tender age, he was always seen releasing series of freestyles across all his social media platforms.

Asake  decided to start making music professionally in 2015. Inspired by the success of music stars like Olamide , Davido , Wizkid , 9ice , and Wande Coal , he joined the Afrobeats music space, focusing on Afrofusion songs. He fuses Hip Hop, Amapiano, R&B, and Fuji sound to create music that would stand out from other artists. 

He started as a backup singer for Broda Shaggi ‘s band, performing at shows and events across the country. He collaborated with Broda Shaggi to release the single Star in 2019. The song did pretty well in the market and helped more music fans to learn of his talent. Encouraged by this win, he released the single Lady in January 2020. The song went viral on social media because different influencers reposted the single on their pages and content creators used it as background music in their videos.

The success of Lady paved the way for Asake to drop the hit song, Mr Money , which was one of the trending singles of 2020. The song earned him a second nickname: Mr. Money . 

In 2022, Asake dropped the single Omo Ope . The song went viral on the internet. And this time around, it got to the ears of rapper and music executive, Olamide . The older artist fell in love with the song and decided to record his verse to the single. Shortly after, Olamide invited Asake for a meeting and offered to sign him to the YBNL record label. Asake took the offer and joined the YBNL family. He was unveiled YBNL ‘s latest signee on the 8th of February 2022.

Thereafter, Asake released his debut EP, Ololade Asake . The music project is home to four hit tracks – Omo Ope , Sungba , Trabaye , and Baba God . He performed Baba God at a live session organized by Glitch Africa in February 2022.

He collaborated with Grammy Award winner Burna Boy to record the remix of Sungba . The song was released on the 28th of March 200 and has topped music charts for several weeks. 

He appeared as a featured artist on DJ Spinall ‘s song, Palazzo . The song was released on the 13th of May 2022. The visuals of the single were shot and directed by TG Omori . 

On the 16th of June 2022, he dropped the chart-topping single, Peace Be Unto You (PBUY). The song received good ratings from critics and has amassed thousands of streams from fans. 

Grace found him in 2020, when one of his freestyles, Lady went viral, earning reposts from top celebrities across several online-based platforms. Immediately the freestyle went viral, it was recorded with the production credited to Blaque Beats .

The song gained massive turn up with repost and dance videos from the likes of Broda Shaggi , Sydney Talker and a vast of others. With the huge turn-up, the single, Lady by Asake became an instant hit and social media anthem.

On 15 June 2023, Asake dropped an album titled Work Of Art , a follow up to his 2022 album titled Mr. Money with the Vibe .

Discography

• Asake Work Of Art
• Palazzo (featured by DJ Spinall )
• Peace Be Unto You (PBUY)
• Mr. Money With The Vibe
• African Something
• Sungba Ft. Burna Boy
• Omo Ope Remix (featuring Olamide )
• Reason (feat. Russ )

Personal Life

Asake resides in a well-furnished apartment building in Lekki, Lagos, and has exotic rides to his name. When he is not performing at shows or creating music, Asake unwinds by playing tennis, football, and snooker games. He also spends a good part of his day listening to songs by other artists.

The singer is currently single, and the details of his romantic life are unknown to the public. He loves being happy always, which helps him create good music. He also likes to travel to new places and network with new people.

Asake is still very much single, he has no wife or girlfriend nor spouse.

He is a music-inclined person. Asake is signed to Olamide ’s YBNL Nation record label.

Awards and Nominations

• Mon Cheri won The City People Music Award for Best Collabo of the Year 2020
• Mr Money won the City People Music Award for Popular Song of the Year 2020
• City People Music Awards for Street Music of the Year 2020 Nomination

Since breaking into the limelight, Asake has become a familiar face in leading shows and events across the country. He earns a lot of money from performance gigs and the royalties generated by his songs.

Asake ‘s net worth is estimated to be US$200,000 to US$500,000.

The versatile Nigerian singer, Asake Music has an estimated net worth which has placed him among the best-earners in the industry. He is a mansion (house) owner and owns fleet of cars, including Benz and Range Rovers.

Social Media

The music superstar Asake has built a large fanbase in a short while. He has over 865k followers on Instagram and over 88k followers on Twitter.

• Instagram: @AsakeMusic
• Twitter: @AsakeMusic
• TikTok: @AsakeMusic
• Phone Number: 08064985930

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How Asake Became the Center of the World’s Most Influential Music Scene

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One of the first things you notice upon meeting Asake is his name—all five letters of the Nigerian singer’s stage moniker are tattooed in big, unmissable ink across his neck.

For another entertainer, this might imply bold vanity and solipsism; for the 29-year-old artist, it symbolizes determination. “In Nigeria, if you have a tattoo on your neck, you can’t work anywhere,” Asake explains. “I can’t work for any company. I can’t sell anything.” Asake got the tattoo at a time when he felt especially discouraged, beaten down, and unsure about this music thing. “I was tired,” he recalls. “I felt like, I don’t want to keep trying.” His response to those feelings of doubt? To double down and give himself no other option. To get the tattoo as he was still becoming the Asake we know now—the chart--topping Afrobeats singer poised to be the genre’s next big crossover star—was to essentially lock himself into staying the course, and conquering. There could be no other move.

Much has been made of Asake’s so-called meteoric rise, how he burst onto the Afrobeats scene with his debut album, 2022’s Mr. Money With the Vibe, and hasn’t stopped climbing to new heights since. It didn’t feel so quick to Asake. “You have to understand: I got there in two years, but I’ve been working for years,” he says. “People are counting the days you’re successful. They don’t count the days you’ve been working toward it. Nobody gives a fuck about that.”

Coat by Versace. Sweater and hat by The Elder Statesman. Earring, his own. Necklace by Shay. Gloves (throughout), stylist’s own. Nose ring (throughout), his own.

We’re sitting in the rooftop lounge at the West Hollywood Edition hotel, overlooking an uncharacteristically dreary city wrapping up its fifth straight day of rain. Asake’s spirits are hardly dimmed. He just attended his first Grammys ceremony, where he was nominated for the inaugural awarding of best African music performance. He lost to Tyla, for her inescapable smash hit “Water,” but he isn’t pressed. “It’s not a loss for me,” he tells me, explaining that he was excited to be there and soak in the energy of a new experience. “I might just get more next year. But in my head I was not even taking it too seriously. I appreciate the fact that they nominated me—I won’t lie, that’s a lot to me. Even me, I didn’t see that coming this soon. I’m relaxed about it. Maybe because I know there will be a day that win will come.”

Asake, who was born Ololade Ahmed—Asake is his mother’s name—has got his dreads tucked neatly under a Dad hat that he’s pulled low, just above his big, piercing eyes. Emblazoned on the hat is the phrase “I Got Lucky.” Asake’s good fortune started when the songs he’d been making in school, and then out of it, gained traction in Lagos. Gauging the response, he made more songs, including the track that would soon become his breakout hit, “Mr. Money,” which caught the attention of Olamide, the veteran Nigerian recording artist and label founder responsible for helping many Afrobeats artists achieve mainstream success. Asake put out an EP in 2022 with an Olamide feature and the hit song “Sungba,” which teed up a major-label deal: Empire wanted a full-length album, and quickly.

Afrobeats was suddenly the hottest sound on the global music scene, gaining rapid momentum in the US with the mainstream success of stars like Burna Boy, Tems, and Wizkid. Of course, pop music has a nasty habit of narrowing the playing field when a subgenre goes wide; tons of new artists bubble up, but there’s apparently room for only so many superstar representatives at one time. How, then, has Asake broken through? For one, his music is a thrilling mash-up of several different regional influences: He sings in his native Yoruba tongue, while weaving in South African amapiano house sounds alongside the typical up-tempo rhythms of Afrobeats to create a style closer to fuji, the Yoruba music popularized by artists like Barrister in the 1970s, whom Asake cites along with Fela Kuti, as an influence. Reverse engineering a new sound out of several was hardly his intent but rather just a natural product of his upbringing. “My music is just me,” Asake says. “It’s not something I can really explain. The thing is, I feel like the kind of music I listened to while growing up shapes who I am.”

He tells me that he’s in a constant search for higher evolution. “I always want to step it up,” Asake says, growing animated. “And I love it.” He’s talking now of his creative process and the hunger to grow as an artist. “It’s a bit stressful. Trying to get better is like having armor and scissors, and carving yourself. So it takes bone, it takes flesh. But at the end of the day, I know what always makes sense for me is, after all the stress, when I drop it and people say, ‘Wow.’ ” That, he says, is the feeling he’s chasing.

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Coat by Homme Plissé Issey Miyake. Pants by Zegna. Boots by Camperlab. Hat by Dior Men. Ring (on left pinkie) by Eliburch Jewelry. Ring (on right pinkie) by Fabergé.

On the stage Asake is chasing a particular sort of vibe too. His live-wire concert style has earned his shows a reputation for their grandiosity and energy. He plays with a full band, and the videos of his shows that go viral feature things like Asake throwing himself into crowds, or him smashing a guitar.

A born performer, Asake used fashion as a kid to express himself: “Putting pieces together, trying to be different among everybody.” That spirit persists in a wild sartorial style that today features bursts of bright colors and funky remixes of traditional pieces—like the pinstripe suit and expressionist--style tie he wore on his last album cover. It’s chaos tempered by taste; proof of his talent for stirring styles together.

His approach to music is similar. Inspiration came first from his parents and the culture he grew up in, but Asake was drawn to dancing before singing, and says he has no great desire to be in front of the camera. At university he studied art, theater, and film directing, and taught dance. He jokes with bracing honesty that he switched from dancing to singing because that’s where the real money is. Lamenting the lack of opportunities for dancers, I point out that there should be a Grammy Award acknowledging choreography; without missing a beat Asake dryly retorts that if that were the case, “they might just reward one white guy who started dancing two years ago.”

Coat by Balmain. Tank top by Ami. Pants by Zegna. Shoes by Bode. Socks by Nike. Brooch by Alexander McQueen. Earrings by Steven Singer Jewelers. Necklace, by Shay.

Despite his high-octane performance style, offstage Asake is reserved—eager to recede into the background and be left to his own devices, a showman who would rather keep to himself. He seems allergic to a lot of the behavior you might associate with ascendant stardom. When we talk about his Grammys experience, I jokingly ask if he was one of the many celebrities queued up in the theme-park-length line that formed around Beyoncé during every commercial break. “I’ll never do that,” he says, laughing. “I love Beyoncé, but I’ll never stress myself for any human, or make myself feel important in front of any human.”

He prides himself on his ability to read people, and their energies, almost instantly—a talent that seems so far to have been helpful in achieving success in the music business. “I can tell when I see somebody with pure mind, pure heart, good intentions,” he says, thinking of an interaction recently caught on video as he met 21 Savage for the first time. The commotion of the moment made hearing and talking impossible, but that didn’t matter. “I didn’t understand one thing he said to me, because there was a lot going on,” Asake says. “But I could tell he’s a very real person and he’s my kind of person.”

Given the enormous influence of Afrobeats right now, it’s easy to surmise that if Asake maintains his current trajectory, he could become one of the hottest singers on the planet before too long. The artistic evolution that occurred, quickly, between his first and second albums was striking to critics. The debut, Mr. Money, was marked by a wave of feel-good anthems, while last summer’s Work of Art showed Asake wrestling in real time with the changes wrought by money, fame, and success. Most interestingly, he felt compelled to deflate the mounting mythmaking that was developing around him. About the debut record, he says, “I wanted to be myself—that guy that wants money, that wants to go to the strip club, that wants to party, smoke, chill.” With the follow---up, he wanted to plumb a little deeper. “People don’t really know me because I’m quiet,” he says. “So everybody started seeing me as mystery. Work of Art is just for them to know me. You have to understand I’m human, but you can’t just deny the heart in me.”

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He’s at work on his third album now, surely aware that it will be greeted with even more anticipation thanks to the Grammy nomination and his growing acclaim. He appears thrilled by the chance to change and grow and defy expectations. “I’ll never limit myself on one thing. I might wake up tomorrow and tell you I want to do an all reggae album. Maybe that’s where God just directs me to,” he says with a shrug. “For me to be able to do Mr. Money and people love it, that means it is inside me. It’s just for me to try to always bring it out, and be focused and always do it. It is inside you. I always say any artist that make a hit song—they can always make 40,000 hit songs. But it’s just like, if you forget yourself, then you can’t make the song again. The problem is not to forget who you are.”

He returns to that idea like a mantra. It’s a chief concern of Asake’s, and has been before he started to get famous: His first tattoo, even before the neck tat, was the phrase “Stay real,” written across both of his hands. He’s noticed that it’s a goal that’s made harder in an environment like Los Angeles, a place that can “trigger you to be more than what you are” and where he spends time for work when he’s not in Lagos. “But I feel like everybody’s going through the same thing in this place. People find it hard to be normal, to be original.” Asake tells me that his ultimate prayer is that he makes his dreams of fame come true, without ever losing the common touch. He wants to be “so rich and so big and so powerful,” he says, while retaining the skill to “be around people, and be comfortable.”

Maybe it’s a luxury afforded to someone whose dividends seem to have paid off quickly, but Asake seems remarkably relaxed for someone at the precipice of such a big moment. He admits that he’s not in a hurry. “Anything that requires time is going to be the best,” he says. “I’m telling you, my bro. What people are scared of is patience. People are scared. But if you can absorb, if you can be patient and have time, he who eats last, eats best.”

“I’m just on my journey,” he says serenely as the last little bit of light peeking through the storm clouds fades away to dusk. “If I tell you I know the things I’m planning or waiting for, I’m just lying.” Now we’re starting to test the limit of believable nonchalance for an artist this successful, I point out. He relents—there is, of course, a loose plan that he’s keeping close to the vest. “I can’t sit down and be telling you my five-year plan,” he says, smirking mischievously. “But, I do have one. To be in this position, you have to have a plan.”

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Frazier Tharpe is GQ’ s senior associate editor.

A version of this story originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of GQ with the title “Meet the Wildest Character in the World’s Most Influential Music Scene”

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Asake Biography, Age and Real Name of the Nigerian Musician

Asake (real name: Ahmed Ololade, born on 13th January 1995) is a 29 year-old Nigerian Afrobeat singer and songwriter who uses uptempo, Afro, and Amapiano-styled production.

Asake developed an early interest in music and began singing and performing at a young age. He started his career as a dancer and was excellent at doing it. He later transitioned to music and has been exceptional.

Asake’s Biography Summary

• Full name:  Ahmed Ololade
• Nickname:  Asake, Mr. Money
• Gender: Male
• Date of birth:  13th January 1995
• Asake’s Age: 29 Years Old
• Ethnicity:  Yoruba
• Nationality:  Nigerian
• Zodiac Sign:  Capricorn
• Sexual Orientation:  Straight
• Religion:  Islam
• Education: Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
• Marital Status:  Single
• Asake’s Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Ololade
• Asake’s Height in Inches: 5 feet 9 inches
• Asake’s Height in Centimetres: 182 cm
• Asake’s Net worth:  Over $1.2 Million
• Famous for: Mr. Money, Omo Ope
• Asake’s Instagram: @Mr M$ney
• Twitter:  @asakemusik
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Who is Asake?

Asake is a Nigerian Afrobeat singer and songwriter. He often uses uptempo, Afro, and Amapiano-styled production. Some listeners have also described his style as close to Fuji due to his singing in Yoruba and the use of slang in his songs.

His songs have earned him both national and international recognition. The Mr. Money with the Vibe album by Asake set a new record for an African album’s largest opening day ever on Apple Music. The biggest three-day opening for an African album in Apple Music history was also broken by this album. It is the Nigerian artist’s highest-charting debut album on the US Billboard 200.

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How Old is Asake?

Asake is 29 years old. He was born on 13th January 1995 to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Ololade, in Lagos State, Nigeria. 

What is Asake’s Real Name and Full Name?

Ahmed Ololade is Asake’s real name. As mentioned earlier, Asake is his mother’s first name, and he decided to use as his stage name. This is a sign of love and respect for his mother.

Asake’s Father

Asake’s father is Mr. Ololade, and he is a businessman, while his mother, Mrs. Ololade, is a teacher. His parents are Muslims, and they brought Asake up in a religious way. There is not much about him because Asake has not revealed much about his parents.

Asake’s Family

Asake is from a Muslim family. Nothing is known about the kind of family he grew up in, how many siblings he has, or whether he is the only child of his parents. Asake has successfully kept his private life away from the public.

Where Is Asake From?

Ahmed Ololade Asake is a native of Lagos State, Nigeria. He was born and raised there. His environment greatly influenced his interest in music, and he was encouraged by his family and friends, who are supportive of his chosen career.

Asake’s Religion: Is He A Muslim?

Yes, Asake is a Muslim. He was born into a Muslim home and grew up to become one. Although he is a Muslim, he makes religious references from both Christianity and Islam. This explains the reason why most of his fans think he’s a Christian.

The Music Star is an Alumnus of Obafemi Awolowo University

Asake had his early childhood education and secondary school education in Lagos State, Nigeria. For his university education, he studied Theatre and Performing Arts at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. He graduated with a degree.

Asake joins the league of Nigerian singers and celebrities who attended and completed their studies. Also, his course of study is relevant to the choice of career he has chosen for himself. He majored in dance as preparatory training for his singing career.

Asake Started His Career in Music in 2018

Having had an interest in music, the star majored in dance while studying Theater and Performing Arts at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. Around 2018, he started releasing music, fusing vibrant Afrobeat beats with his unique style of singing and quick freestyling.

He released “Lady” in 2020, which really established his career, after refining his sound through earlier singles like “Ayeeza” and “Kanipe.” The song’s popularity was increased thanks to endorsements from more seasoned tastemakers like Broda Shaggi and Tunde Ednut . He then released “Mr. Money,” which quickly became one of his signature songs. The songs “Don’t Hype Me” and “Yan Yan” from 2021 contributed to the expectation for Ololade Asake, his debut EP from 2022. The EP’s opening track, “Omo Ope,” which featured Nigerian artist Olamide, later became Asake’s biggest hit.

All of this led up to the singer’s debut album, Mr. Money with the Vibe , which was released in September 2022 and reached number 66 on the Billboard Pop chart. He followed the album with the Tiwa Savage collaboration “Loaded,” and the 2023 singles “Yoga” and “2:30.” His career has been on the rise since he joined the industry, and his fans are yearning for more.

Best of Asake’s Songs

Here’s a list of the best songs released by the singer so far.

• Don’t Hype Me

List of Asake’s Albums

So far, Asake has released the following albums and EPs

• Mr. Money with the Vibe
• If Only You Knew (EP)
• Ololade Asake (EP)

Who Signed Asake?

Olamide signed Asake to YBNL Nation after the release of his hit song, “Omo Ope.” Before then, Asake revealed in an interview that he had been texting Olamide since 2020, begging him to help sign him to his label. His texts were never replied to until he released Omo Ope in February 2022. Asake received a message from Olamide asking for them to meet. When they met, Olamide simply asked if he would like to join the YBNL Nation family, and he became a member.

Asake is also signed by Empire Distribution Company. He was signed on 18th July 2022. Empire Distribution Company is an American media distribution company. They were glad to welcome him to the family. Also, it was not a surprise as Olamide’s YBNL Nation was in a partnership deal with Empire Music in 2020.

For his five-year contribution to the music industry, Asake has received a number of nominations and awards. He won the award for the Best African Artist of the Year in the 2023 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. Other nominations he has received are Best Collabo of the Year, Street Music of the Year, and Popular Song of the Year, all in the 2020 City People Music Awards.

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Asake Ololade , otherwise known as MR MONEY is an Afropop and Afrobeat singer and songwriter from Nigeria. Born Ahmed Ololade, in the late 1990s and brought up by Yoruba parents in Lagos, Nigeria, Asake received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Department of Theatre and Performing Arts at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State.

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Full Name: Ahmed Ololade Asake Stage Name: Asake, Mr Money Born: 13 January 1995 (age 27 years old) Place of Birth: Lagos, Nigeria State Of Origin: Lagos, State Nationality: Nigerian Height: 1.81 m Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Ololade Siblings: N/A Occupation: Singer • Songwriter Net Worth: US$200,000-US$500,000

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Biography, Education, And Career

The Nigerian musician Ahmed Ololade also known as Asake is one of the biggest musicians in the Nigerian music industry at the moment. Asake is loved by millions of Nigerians and Afrobeats fans around the world.

Asake became a successful musician in Nigeria in 2020 when he dropped a single, titled Lady before he was signed to YBNL Records by the label boss, Olamide. Immediately Asake dropped another single that increased his presence in the Nigerian music industry titled Mr Money.

Asake dropped his debut EP, Ololade Asake, it was a commercial success in Nigeria and other countries of the world. He is one of the shining stars in the Street Pop and Afro Fusion music scenes.

Asake began his entertainment career as a dancer. He loved to dance and he was very good at it, so he specialized in cultural dance, spending his free time practicing a dance to improve his skill. Asake performed at school events as a high school student. It was not long before he decided to change to singing because he wanted to be a better entertainer. However, he was also a drummer and a member of his school’s music band at the time.

Asake started music professionally in 2015 after he was inspired by the success of music stars such as Olamide, Davido, Wizkid, 9ice, and Wande Coal, Asake joined the Afrobeats music space, focusing on Afro Fusion songs. He fuses Hip Hop, Amapiano, R&B, and Fuji sounds to create his unique music style.

Asake once worked as a backup singer for Broda Shaggi‘s band, performing at several shows and events in Lagos and other states in the country. He collaborated with Broda Shaggi to release the single Star in 2019. The song did well in Nigeria and helped more music fans to learn of his talent.

He started getting attention on the internet in 2020, when one of his freestyles, Lady went viral, this single earned him reposts from popular celebrities in Nigeria on several online-based platforms. Immediately the freestyle went viral, the freestyle was recorded and produced by Blaque Beats.

Immediately after, Asake released his debut EP, Ololade Asake. The EP project was just four hit tracks – Omo Ope, Sungba, Trabaye, and Baba God. He performed Baba God at a live session organized by Glitch Africa in February 2022.

Before he had the opportunity to collaborate with Grammy Award winner Burna Boy to record the remix of Sungba. The song was released on the 28th of March 200 and has topped music charts for numerous weeks.

On the 16th of June 2022, Asake released the chart-topping single, Peace Be Unto You (PBUY). The single received positive ratings from critics and has amassed thousands of streams from all music lovers in Nigeria and other countries of the world.

Discography ● Lady ● Palazzo (featured by DJ Spinall) ● Peace Be Unto You (PBUY) ● Mr. Money With The Vibe ● Mr Money ● Body ● Gbale Lo ● Gegeti ● Star ● Trabaye ● Kanipe ● Baba God ● Ayeeza ● Grind ● Payin ● African Something ● Sungba Ft. Burna Boy ● Omo Ope Remix (featuring Olamide)

● Terminator ● Nzaza ● Dull ● Organise ● Muse ● Jaho ● Ototo ● Reason (feat. Russ) ● Sunmomi ● Dupe

After coming to the limelight, Asake is a popular face in leading shows and events in Nigeria and other countries of the world. Asake has been able to earn a huge amount of money from performance gigs and the royalties generated by his songs. Currently, Asake‘s net worth is estimated to be US$200,000 to US$500,000.

Awards and Nominations

● Asake won The City People Music Award for Best Collabo of the Year 2020 ● Mr Money won the City People Music Award for Popular Song of the Year 2020 ● City People Music Awards for Street Music of the Year 2020 Nomination

Social Media

These are Asake Social media handles.

● Instagram: @AsakeMusic ● Twitter: @AsakeMusic ● TikTok: @AsakeMusic

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Personal Life

Asake currently resides in a well-furnished apartment in Lekki, Lagos, and has a lot of exotic rides to his name. When Asake is not performing at shows or recording music, Asake is seen playing tennis, football, and snooker games. He spends a good part of his day listening to songs by other artists.

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Asake’s first commercial releases, beginning with the song Lady in 2020, didn’t really portend a seismic shift in Nigeria’s teeming Afrobeats scene . The 27-year-old genre-blending Nigerian singer and rapper has a tongue-in-cheek delivery and jocular persona. He writes nonsensical, self-deprecating rhymes with hip-hop influenced consumerist themes and could easily be mistaken for a less threatening Naira Marley – a street savvy Afrobeats mainstay-wannabe.

And then, in September 2022, came his scorching 30-minute long album, Mr. Money With The Vibe . It’s an engrossing potpourri of music styles, voices and attitudes that reveal a breadth of ambition that music lovers have not seen in a long time. His rise to global reckoning was sealed by sold out shows in Atlanta and London and a collaboration with Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage on the hit Loaded .

Currently signed to Afrobeats linchpin Olamide’s Empire-distributed YBNL label , which is also home to the equally talented Fireboy DML , Asake finds himself in quite impressive company. Olamide himself is pretty adept in blending the sonic elements that form the basis of Asake’s own creative template.

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It seems Asake, a Lagosian, is also embracing amapiano , the South African house music subgenre taking the world by storm . Characterised by jazzy, sometimes bluesy, house grooves punctuated by frequent log drum infusions, amapiano has spread across the continent and is redefining and re-energising popular dance music. Asake is adding his own distinctive chameleonic qualities to it.

His sweeping take on Afrobeats, fuji , amapiano, Lagosian street slang and the urban sounds of black America has an immediate impact as an astonishing blast of creativity.

Who is Asake?

Born Ahmed Ololade, Asake is a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University drama department who burst into the music scene without apparent warning. Asake is actually his mother’s name. He is also a highly inventive student of Nigeria’s Yoruba language, his main medium of expression.

He uses slang fresh from the streets coupled with expressions popularised by fuji (an Islam-inflected south-west Nigeria form of popular music) and the entire Isale Eko (downtown Lagos) army of street-dwelling miscreants. Asake brazenly embraces urban “hood” culture and its seductive promise of social rebellion. Yet at the same time, he is not the kind of guy moms loathe because he’s also endowed with a winning comic gift and bad-boy-on-the-mend sort of aura.

Nigerian megastar Burna Boy was quick to partner on a remix of Asake’s Afrobeats-cum-amapiano track Sungba , but didn’t bring anything new to the table apart from his certified hit-making status and brooding sense of menace. Asake, on the other hand, is a live wire linguistic conduit, spicing up Yoruba street lingo with the dexterity of a street urchin, complete with witty banter and double meanings.

Is his debut album any good?

Songs such as Peace Be Unto You , Terminator and Joha only lavishly build on the eruptive momentum of Organise , the opening track of Mr. Money With The Vibe. The album’s blistering pace is one of its most distinctive features, followed by its seamless splicing (editing). Pace and sequencing are the key elements of this exquisite piece of sonic art.

Building from this is Asake’s mastery of a rich range of music styles, from amapiano and Afrobeats to R&B , hip-hop and Jamaican dub . He burns through these illustrious music archives at great speed and, surprisingly, with some depth. He’s able to convert gospel-sounding ditties into profane and rabble-rousing secular anthems. This ability is one of the secrets of the album’s somewhat unexpected artistic success.

Most of Asake’s videos off the album are shot by TG Omori , the intriguingly auteurish cinematographer and leading West African music video director. They try to capture the frenetic pace and layering of the songs. The scenes are eclectic and quirky by turns. Joha appears shot in the arid expanses of Arizona or some such place. Peace Be Unto You sweeps up Lagos’s sprawling urban chaos and intensity. Terminator offers a slow burning account of simmering foreboding, sassiness and sexual gratification. Through it all, Asake adopts a broad selection of personas and roles.

Beyond amapiano

When South African amapiano stars such as DBN Gogo and Major League DJz heard Mr. Money With The Vibe, they expressed their awe and admiration. Major League DJz tweeted that “Asake is amapiano”. DBN Gogo went as far as to say the album was so good that South African amapiano musicians had to come together to fend off the formidable Nigerian challenge. Obviously, she’s at a loss regarding Asake’s diversity of cultural and musical inspirations.

Indeed, Asake can be difficult to categorise. He gleefully avails himself of cultural resources and archives with confidence, panache and skill.

Asake’s free-wheeling sonic eclecticism might be the key to his meteoric success. Joyous choral singing, ebullient fuji trimmings, repurposed iconic R&B grooves, street patois, good natured urban hooliganism, immediacy and openness also need to be added into the already intriguing mix. Surely, this is all beyond ordinary amapiano. And that makes it all the more appealing.

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About Asake

Ahmed Ololade (born January 13, 1995) is a Nigerian Afrobeats singer and songwriter, better known as Asake or Mr. Money, who is signed to YBNL Nation. Asake’s revealed the origin of his stage name in a February 2022 interview with All Music , saying:

The name is from my mum. My mum used to be a teacher at my school then. You know how students do it? Instead of them calling me Omo Asake. Omo means the child of Asake. I don’t know how they edited the Omo out of it and started calling me Asake. And I love her so much so I felt like I had to keep the name.

He enjoyed dancing in his youth, specialized in cultural dances, and was the drummer in a high school musical band, before graduating from Obafemi Awolowo University where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre & Performing Arts.

Asake spent years honing his craft until 2020, when he released his first single, “Lady,” which was warmly received by listeners. Given the excellent feedback on “Lady,” he followed it up with his second single, “Mr. Money” which catapulted him to a significantly larger audience, this led to the release of his debut EP, Ololade Asake, in 2022, which included other hit singles like “Omo Ope” and “Sungba.”

Asake is the epitome of a Nigerian Afrofusion singer who has won the hearts of many with his incredible lyrical prowess as well as his voice. He’s also the epitome of an artist who uses his songs to inspire people during their struggles:

My music talks about life in general. I grew up in a neighborhood that is considered dangerous, a neighborhood where everyone wakes up to hustle for their daily meals. It taught me how to survive in good times and bad times. So I draw inspiration from my real-life experiences to encourage everyone who thinks their present reality is constant; I want them to always remember that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

With his 2022 club anthem singles like “Sungba (Remix),” “Terminator,” “Joha,” “Dull,” and “Organise,” as well as being featured on successful songs like “Bandana,” Asake experienced a turning point in his career in 2022 where he also won an honor for Breakout Artist of the Year during the eighth Afrima edition.

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Famous as one of the Afrobeats sensations on the rise, Asake, aka Mr. Money, born Ahmed Ololade, is a Nigerian singer-songwriter known for his fusion of Afrobeats, Fuji Fusion, Afropop, and Amapiano. Inspired by icons like Wizkid and Olamide, he transitioned from dance to music after his undergraduate studies His breakthrough came in 2020 with the hit "Lady" and the chart-topping "Mr. Money" in 2022. Signed to YBNL Nation, he released the EP "Ololade" and his debut album "Mr. Money with the Vibe" in 2022, achieving international success on the Billboard 200. In a short period, Asake has garnered awards, including the Soundcity MVP Awards, the Headies Award, and his first Grammy nomination in 2024 for the single "Amapiano," featuring Olamide.

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Asake is one of the most sought-after Nigerian musicians who gained prominence in 2020 and became a worldwide Afrobeat icon in 2022. His biography is explored below.

Asake is arguably one of 2022’s biggest breakout stars. After years of being part of Nigeria’s underground Afrobeats scene, in the past 12 months, the 27-year-old Lagos-based singer has collaborated with Burna Boy and released his debut album, Mr Money With the Vibe, to widespread critical and commercial success.

Released in September, Mr Money With the Vibe debuted at No 22 on the UK albums chart and is the highest-charting Nigerian album of all time on the US charts. It was named by Rolling Stone, The Fader, and the New York Times as one of the year’s best records, with the NYT’s Jon Caramanica describing the album as “enveloping and inspirational, mellow but assured”.

As his international renown has grown, Asake has become known for his spectacular – and, occasionally, erratic – live shows. Earlier this year, he went viral after bringing a live goat on stage in Atlanta; he was reportedly booed at a show in Birmingham earlier this week after arriving on stage late. Later in the show he handed out cash to fans in the front row.

Asake’s tour in support of Mr Money With the Vibe is his first run of international shows, and demand in London – one of the world’s main Afrobeats hubs outside Lagos and Accra – was particularly huge, with tickets for all three Brixton Academy shows selling out in minutes.

There is more about the singer that most of his fans do not know, hence, TheDistin has gathered 10 interesting biography facts about him. Including but not limited to his biography, family, personal and finances, here’s everything to know about him.

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Who is Asake?

Asake is a rising singer-songwriter from Nigeria. He gained public attention for his 2020 hit Lady. He is also famous for his songs, including Omo Ope, Palazzo, Mr Money, and Peace Be Unto.

Asake has been in the music industry since 2018. His music career was inspired by Nigeria’s most famous artists, such as Wizkid, Olamide, and Davido. He released his debut studio album, titled Mr. Money with the Vibe, in September 2022. The singer is currently signed to YBNL Nation and Empire Distribution.

Outside of his music career, he has gained a huge following across social media platforms. On Twitter , he has over 400K followers, and on Instagram , he has close to 3 million followers.

How old is Asake?

The Nigerian singer is 28 years old as of 2023. When was Asake born? He was born on 13 January 1995. His zodiac sign is Capricorn.

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Where is Asake from?

The Nigerian entertainer was born Ahmed Ololade in Lagos State, Nigeria, where he was raised. He is a Nigerian national of African heritage.

What is Asake’s real name and what does his stage name mean?

The singer was born with the real name Ahmed Ololade. He is of the Yoruba tribe. His stage name pays homage to his mother, whose first name is Asake. Àshàké/Asake is a female name of Yoruba Oriki origin which means a daughter who is chosen to be cherished and pampered.

Who are Asake’s parents?

His parents are Muslims from the South-Western part of Nigeria. Asake’s father is a Lagos-based businessman, while his mother is a former teacher.

What school did Asake attend?

The singer is educated and is a graduate. After completing his high school education, he enrolled at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Theatre and Performing arts.

What’s the chances, what’s the probability to see a better version of me with agility ??‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/ezuthXRt4x — ASAKE (@asakemusik) March 12, 2023

What is Asake’s career like?

Asake is a Nigerian Afrobeat singer and songwriter. He began his career as a dancer specialising in cultural dance while in high school. He was also a drummer and a member of his high school’s musical band.

Asake professionally began creating music in 2015, fusing elements of Hip Hop, RnB, Afrobeat, and Fuji to form his sound. He later became a backup singer in Nigerian comedian and singer Broda Shaggi’s band and collaborated on the song Star in 2019.

The singer rose to stardom after releasing his hit single Lady in 2020. He also gained further recognition for the single Mr. Money, followed by a remix with Zlatan and Peruzzi. In February 2022, he released his debut extended play, Ololade. The EP’s lead single, Omo Ope, featured Nigerian superstar Olamide and became Asake’s biggest hit.

On 8 September 2022, he released his debut studio album Mr. Money with the Vibe. The album included the hit singles Terminator, Peace Be Unto You, and the Sungba remix featuring Burna Boy.

Since the beginning of his career, the Afrobeat musician has won a number of awards and recognition, including The City People Music Award for Best Collabo of the Year 2020 and the City People Music Award for Popular Song of the Year 2020. He is signed to YBNL Nation record label and Empire Distribution since 2022.

How did Asake meet Olamide? Asake disclosed that Olamide finally responded when he dropped his hit song ‘Omo Ope’. He stated that Olamide just gave him a call and demanded that they meet and when he arrived, Baddo simply asked if he would like to join the family.

Below is a list of some of his songs:

• Don’t Hype Me
• Peace Be Unto You
• African Something

What is Asake’s net worth?

The rising Nigerian singer has an alleged net worth of between $1.2 million and $1.5 million. He primarily earns his income from his music career, and mainly through endorsements, partnerships, and other ventures connected to his career.

Does Asake have a house? Earlier in August 2022, Asake took to Instagram to share a picture of his recently purchased home in Lagos, Nigeria, which is worth millions of Naira.

What cars does Asake own? Since becoming a wealthy musician, Asake has also bought luxury cars. Some of the cars the artiste has been spotted with include Land Rover Range and the latest Range Rover SUVs that cost from 40 million Naira upwards, per Carmart .

What is Asake’s height?

Asake has a nice physique and has not reported any adverse health conditions since he gained fame.

The rising singer stands at 5 feet 11 inches or 180 centimetres tall. He weighs approximately 132 pounds or 60 kilograms.

His hair color is black and he has black eye color.

Who is Asake’s wife?

The Nigerian singer is neither married nor dating anyone at the moment, therefore, he does not have a wife. He has not discussed his romantic life publicly.

Does Asake have kids? The singer is currently focused on his career and seems not to be a father yet, hence he has no children.

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How Asake became the centre of the world’s most influential music scene

One of the first things you notice when meeting Asake is his name – all five letters of the Nigerian singer’s stage moniker are tattooed in big, unmissable ink across his neck.

For another entertainer, this might imply bold vanity and solipsism; for the 29-year-old artist, it symbolises determination. “In Nigeria, if you have a tattoo on your neck, you can’t work anywhere,” Asake explains. “I can’t work for any company. I can’t sell anything.” Asake got the tattoo at a time when he felt especially discouraged, beaten down, and unsure about this music thing. “I was tired,” he recalls. “I felt like, I don’t want to keep trying.” His response to those feelings of doubt? To double down and give himself no other option. To get the tattoo as he was still becoming the Asake we know now – the chart-topping Afrobeats singer poised to be the genre’s next big crossover star – was to essentially lock himself into staying the course, and conquering. There could be no other move.

Much has been made of Asake’s so-called meteoric rise, how he burst onto the Afrobeats scene with his debut album, 2022’s Mr. Money with the Vibe, and hasn’t stopped climbing to new heights since. It didn’t feel so quick to Asake. “You have to understand: I got there in two years, but I’ve been working for years,” he says. “People are counting the days you’re successful. They don’t count the days you’ve been working towards it. Nobody gives a fuck about that.”

Coat by Versace. Jumper and hat by The Elder Statesman. Earring, his own. Necklace by Shay. Gloves (throughout) stylist’s own. Nose ring (throughout) his own.

We’re sitting in the rooftop lounge at the West Hollywood Edition hotel, overlooking an uncharacteristically dreary LA wrapping up its fifth straight day of rain. Asake’s spirits are hardly dimmed. He just attended his first Grammys ceremony, where he was nominated for the inaugural awarding of best African music performance. He lost to Tyla, for her inescapable smash hit “Water,” but he isn’t pressed. “It’s not a loss for me,” he tells me, explaining that he was excited to be there and soak in the energy of a new experience. “I might just get more next year. But in my head I was not even taking it too seriously. I appreciate the fact that they nominated me – I won’t lie, that’s a lot to me. Even me, I didn’t see that coming this soon. I’m relaxed about it. Maybe because I know there will be a day that win will come.”

Asake, who was born Ololade Ahmed – Asake is his mother’s name – has got his dreads tucked neatly under a dad hat that he’s pulled low, just above his big, piercing eyes. Emblazoned on the hat is the phrase “I Got Lucky.” Asake’s good fortune started when the songs he’d been making at school, and then out of it, gained traction in Lagos. Gauging the response, he made more songs, including the track that would soon become his breakout hit, “Mr Money,” which caught the attention of Olamide, the veteran Nigerian recording artist and label founder responsible for helping many Afrobeats artists achieve mainstream success. Asake put out an EP in 2022 with an Olamide feature and the hit song “Sungba,” which teed up a major-label deal: Empire wanted a full-length album, and quickly.

Afrobeats was suddenly the hottest sound on the global music scene, gaining rapid momentum in the US with the mainstream success of stars like Burna Boy , Tems , and Wizkid. Of course, pop music has a nasty habit of narrowing the playing field when a subgenre goes wide; tons of new artists bubble up, but there’s apparently room for only so many superstar representatives at one time. How, then, has Asake broken through? For one, his music is a thrilling mash-up of several different regional influences: he sings in his native Yoruba tongue, while weaving in South African amapiano house sounds alongside the typical up-tempo rhythms of Afrobeats to create a style closer to fuji, the Yoruba music popularised by artists like Barrister in the 1970s, whom Asake cites along with Fela Kuti, as an influence. Reverse engineering a new sound out of several was hardly his intent, but rather just a natural product of his upbringing. “My music is just me,” Asake says. “It’s not something I can really explain. The thing is, I feel like the kind of music I listened to while growing up shapes who I am.”

He tells me that he’s in a constant search for higher evolution. “I always want to step it up,” Asake says, growing animated. “And I love it.” He’s talking now of his creative process and the hunger to grow as an artist. “It’s a bit stressful. Trying to get better is like having armour and scissors, and carving yourself. So it takes bone, it takes flesh. But at the end of the day, I know what always makes sense for me is, after all the stress, when I drop it and people say, ‘Wow.’” That, he says, is the feeling he’s chasing.

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On the stage Asake is chasing a particular sort of vibe too. His live-wire concert style has earned his shows a reputation for their grandiosity and energy. He plays with a full band, and the videos of his shows that go viral feature things like Asake throwing himself into crowds, or him smashing a guitar. The wild popularity of these shows means they often sell out; in 2022, two people died and several were injured after a crowd tried to gain entrance to London’s O2 Academy Brixton while Asake was performing. (The show was cancelled shortly thereafter, and Asake, who said in a statement at the time that he was “overwhelmed with grief,” paid tribute to the victims when he played in London last year.)

A born performer, Asake used fashion as a kid to express himself: “Putting pieces together, trying to be different among everybody.” That spirit persists in a wild sartorial style that today features bursts of bright colours and funky remixes of traditional pieces – like the pinstripe suit and expressionist-style tie he wore on the cover of his last album. It’s chaos tempered by taste; proof of his talent for stirring styles together.

His approach to music is similar. Inspiration came first from his parents and the culture he grew up in, but Asake was drawn to dancing before singing, and says he has no great desire to be in front of the camera. At university he studied art , theatre, and film directing, and taught dance. He jokes with bracing honesty that he switched from dancing to singing because that’s where the real money is. Lamenting the lack of opportunities for dancers, I point out that there should be a Grammy Award acknowledging choreography; without missing a beat Asake drily retorts that if that were the case, “They might just reward one white guy who started dancing two years ago.”

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Despite his high-octane performance style, offstage Asake is reserved – eager to recede into the background and be left to his own devices, a showman who would rather keep himself to himself. He seems allergic to a lot of the behaviour you might associate with ascendant stardom. When we talk about his Grammys experience, I jokingly ask if he was one of the many celebrities lined up in the theme-park-length queue that formed around Beyoncé during every commercial break. “I’ll never do that,” he says, laughing. “I love Beyoncé, but I’ll never stress myself for any human, or make myself feel important in front of any human.”

He prides himself on his ability to read people, and their energies, almost instantly – a talent that seems so far to have been helpful in achieving success in the music business. “I can tell when I see somebody with pure mind, pure heart, good intentions,” he says, thinking of an interaction recently caught on video as he met 21 Savage for the first time. The commotion of the moment made hearing and talking impossible, but that didn’t matter. “I didn’t understand one thing he said to me, because there was a lot going on,” Asake says. “But I could tell he’s a very real person and he’s my kind of person.”

Given the enormous influence of Afrobeats right now, it’s easy to surmise that if Asake maintains his current trajectory, he could become one of the hottest singers on the planet before too long. The artistic evolution that occurred, quickly, between his first and second albums was striking to critics. The debut, Mr. Money, was marked by a wave of feel-good anthems, while last summer’s Work of Art showed Asake wrestling in real time with the changes wrought by money, fame, and success. Most interestingly, he felt compelled to deflate the mounting myth-making that was developing around him. About the debut record, he says, “I wanted to be myself – that guy that wants money, that wants to go to the strip club, that wants to party, smoke, chill.” With the follow--up, he wanted to plumb a little deeper. “People don’t really know me because I’m quiet,” he says. “So everybody started seeing me as mystery. Work of Art is just for them to know me. You have to understand I’m human, but you can’t just deny the heart in me.”

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He’s at work on his third album now, surely aware that it will be greeted with even more anticipation thanks to the Grammy nomination and his growing acclaim. He appears thrilled by the chance to change and grow and defy expectations. “I’ll never limit myself on one thing. I might wake up tomorrow and tell you I want to do a reggae album. Maybe that’s where God just directs me to,” he says with a shrug. “For me to be able to do Mr. Money and people love it, that means it is inside me. It’s just for me to try to always bring it out, and be focused and always do it. It is inside you. I always say any artist that makes a hit song – they can always make 40,000 hit songs. But it’s just like, if you forget yourself, then you can’t make the song again. The problem is not to forget who you are.”

He returns to that idea like a mantra. It’s a chief concern of Asake’s, and has been before he started to get famous: his first tattoo, even before the neck tat, was the phrase “Stay real,” written across both of his hands. He’s noticed that it’s a goal that’s made harder in an environment like LA, a place that can “trigger you to be more than what you are” and where he spends time for work when he’s not in Lagos. “But I feel like everybody’s going through the same thing in this place. People find it hard to be normal, to be original.” Asake tells me that his ultimate prayer is that he makes his dreams of fame come true, without losing the common touch. He wants to be “so rich and so big and so powerful,” he says, while retaining the skill to “be around people, and be comfortable.”

Maybe it’s a luxury afforded to someone whose dividends seem to have paid off quickly, but Asake seems remarkably relaxed for someone at the precipice of such a big moment. He admits that he’s not in a hurry. “Anything that requires time is going to be the best,” he says. “I’m telling you, my bro. What people are scared of is patience. People are scared. But if you can absorb, if you can be patient and have time, he who eats last, eats best.”

“I’m just on my journey,” he says serenely as the last little bit of light peeking through the storm clouds fades away to dusk. “If I tell you I know the things I’m planning or waiting for, I’m just lying.” Now we’re starting to test the limit of believable nonchalance for an artist this successful, I point out. He relents – there is, of course, a loose plan that he’s keeping close to his chest. “I can’t sit down and be telling you my five-year plan,” he says, smirking mischievously. “But, I do have one. To be in this position, you have to have a plan.”

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Asake Biography: Wiki, Age, Record Label, Songs, Net Worth

Asake with real name as Ahmed Ololade Asake is one of the talented Nigerian singer with lots of hit singles to his credit.

He is from the Yoruba tribe in the Soutwestern part of Nigeria. He started from releasing music undergorund before he came to prominence for his hit song “Lady”.

Ololade became the latest addition to the YBNL record label owned by Olamide after a successful outing in the music industry.

His exciting freestyles and relentless effort in dropping good sounds has continued to pave way for him.

Asake was born on January 13 in the late 1990s in Lagos State to parents from the Yoruba tribe.

He grew up in Lagos State where he found passion for music as a result of being surrounded by a musical environment.

He obtained a degree in Obafemi Awolo University, Osun State where he majored in Theater and Performing Arts.

Asake took interest in music at a very young age. He began releasing music underground while dropping freestyles on the various social media platforms.

He first of all gained much exposure in 2019 after featuring the instagram comedian Broda Shaggi in his song “Star”.

Asake music became known in 2020 after a massive turn up for his freestyle “Lady” which went viral online with lots of repost from top personalities in the country which include the likes of Tunde Ednut, Broda Shaggi and Sydney Talker.

The freestyle was given a befitting official recording with production credit from Blaque Beats.

Asake never relent in dishing out good vibes and thus became a sensation and one of the prominent Nigerian singer in the music industry.

He released the single “Mr Money” in February 2021 and was followed up with an astonishing remix featuring Peruzzi and the street sensation, Zlatan.

Asake team up with Olamide for the catchy record titled “Omo Ope” in February 2020. The record enjoyed production credit from Magicsticks. The single “Omo Ope” became one of his most succesful song as it went viral on the video sharing platform, TikTok with lots of accomoanied dancing videos.

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He was signed by Olamide into hia record label YBNL alongside Jayboi in February 2022. The record label is already a home to Fireboy DML and has produced countless number of music stars in the past such as Adekunle Gold , Lil Kesh , Chinko Ekun, Viktoh and so on.

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Personal Life

Asake has only focused on making music and there is no much information about his relationship statis. Although he is the type that does not reveal much about his private affairs.

Awards & Nominations

Asake has won several awards such as:

• The City People music award for Best Collabo of the Year in 2020
• The City People music award for popular song of the year for Mr Money

Asake music earns from performing in shows and also make money from his songs. He has an estimated net worth of $10,000 – $50,000.

Social Media

Asake is active on the social media platforms with large followers on Instagram @AsakeMusuc and on twitter @AsakeMusic and TikTok @AsakeMusic

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Asake ’s on top of the world right now and isn’t coming down. On “Olorun,” the meditative opener to his second album, Work of Art , he extols the Supreme Being of the Yoruba religion before praising himself. “I’m a brand new man,” he proclaims. Ahmed Ololade’s first love was dancing, but as much as he loved feeling the music, he knew the best way to make money was to become a consummate artist. He took up singing and adopted a stage name, and after a steady stream of singles he released his first full-length, Mr. Money With the Vibe , in 2022. It became Billboard’s highest-charting debut album from a Nigerian artist. He was, undoubtedly, a star.

Asake’s first album was the culmination of ideas percolating throughout his home country. Most notably, it was amapiano—a strain of South African house music in the lineage of kwaito —that brought Asake’s Afrofusion music to another level. This regional style was already spreading across the continent—in Tanzania and Kenya , Namibia and Mozambique —and fellow Nigerians like Davido and Mayorkun were collaborating with South Africans to meld it with Afrobeats. What separated Asake from his peers was how he forged a sound all his own: He incorporated choral harmonies and string arrangements, and worked in elements of the Indigenous Yoruba music known as fújì . The opening track on his debut announced this audacious blend: “ Dull ” interpolated “Oke Agba” from the pioneering fújì musician Ayinde Barrister.

With Work of Art , Asake understands that his winning formula needs no adjustments. Wistful strings inject solemnity on “What’s Up My G,” and as the characteristic log-drum loop of amapiano establishes a lithe beat, he expertly switches between vocal rhythms and inflections. There are many shades to his wealth, his nimble delivery implies. And when he lists off designer brands and luxury cars, the host of voices behind him frame his braggadocio as a spiritual act. “If you don’t feel blessed, you won’t be blessed,” he recently told ABC News. It sounds like the flipside to a Yoruba òwe , or proverb: “Ẹní lówó kó ṣe bí ọba” (“Whoever has riches should act like a king”).

These two pithy statements reflect Asake’s own mindset of manifestation: His songs often read as a proposition that anyone who hustles can experience the blessings he’s had. On “Basquiat,” he makes sure to let you know that the “work of art” his album title refers to is, indeed, himself. Still, the song’s group chants remind you that celebration can and should be a communal act. Perhaps that’s why he’s so drawn to amapiano, a style of music that South African artist Thandiswa Mazwai has said reflects “how radical Black joy can be.” Inevitably, some of the most irresistible songs on Work of Art are cheery. “Sunshine” is an encouraging balm, its bubbly synths and rising vocal harmonies capturing the warmth of time spent with loved ones. “Awodi” is less summery but just as hopeful. Asake sings about rising from the slums, and his slow, patient delivery feels like he’s extending an arm to lift you up beside him.

Stories of rebirth are nothing new, but Asake’s feel revelatory because they’re in constant search of innovation. “Amapiano” sheds some light on his approach. If the amapiano coming from South Africa is more tied to the country’s dance lineage, then Asake is intent on using it in bite-sized pop song form, as an avenue for intimate storytelling. But this isn’t to say that the production doesn’t stand out: “Great Guy” turns amapiano’s flagellating bass synths into pure, rumbling texture, while “2:30” lets them resonate in a way that recalls fújì’s talking drums. Closer “Yoga” even turns traditional séga —music that originated from enslaved Africans in Réunion and Mauritius—into a contemporary plea for peace. Asake grew up listening to Nigerian artists who continually evolved the country’s music, like Fela Kuti , Ayinla Omowura, and Wande Coal. His cross-generational, intercontinental music is doing the same.

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Asake Expands His Street-Pop Empire With ‘Work of Art’

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Asake has established himself as the best new artist on the Nigerian pop scene, thanks to an innovative street-pop sound that fuses choir-like, crowded backing vocals with traditional Nigerian melodies and amapiano rhythms. Last year, he made three appearances on Rolling Stone ’s Best Afropop songs of 2022 list, with “Sungba (Remix),” “Joha,” and his show-stealing feature on Fireboy DML’s “Bandana.” Less than a year since his highly acclaimed debut, Mr. Money With the Vibe , the singer-songwriter has delivered his sophomore LP, Work of Art, which is easily the most important music he’s made to date.

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Building on the sound of his debut, amapiano drums and basslines, shakers, and synths coupled with guitars, saxophones, and violins permeate the album. Asake’s blend of amapiano and Afropop (created with his go-to producer-engineer Magicsticks) has placed him at the forefront of Nigerian artists who have adopted a similar stylistic approach. He declares his love for the South Africa-birthed genre and the energy it induces on the explicitly titled banger “Amapiano.” He opens the song with the lyrics, “Amapiano, piano/Issa big vibe, all the girls them know/Steadily, steadily/Heavily, we are getting lit,” chanted as if they are an incantation. Asake has already proved that his breakthrough was more than earned. With Work of Art, he solidifies his status as a street-pop superstar. 

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Asake Biography: Age, Career, Wife, Girlfriend, Kids, Net Worth

Who is Asake?

Asake is a Nigerian singer, entertainer, and songwriter. He is an Afro-fusion singer whose genre involves a mix of Afro-pop, Amapiano, Afro-R&B, and Fuji to produce anthem-like melodies. Asake is known for his hit songs like “Sungba”, “Palazzo”, “Peace Be Unto You” and “Trabaye”.

Asake’s childhood and parents

Asake’s full name is Ahmed Ololade. He was born on January 13, 1995, in Lagos State to his parents Mr and Mrs Ololade. His parents are Muslims from the South-Western part of Nigeria. As of 2022, Asake is 27 years old. His father is reportedly a Lagos-based businessman, while his mother works as a teacher.

Asake’s siblings

Information about Asake’s siblings is not known at this time. It is not yet clear if Asake is the only child of his parents or if he has brothers and sisters, the number and their ages.

Asake’s education and career

According to reports, Asake is a graduate of Theater and Performing Arts from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. He started his career as a dancer right from his high school days, specializing in cultural dance. He was also a drummer and a member of his school’s musical band.

How Asake got his name

According to some reports, the “Sungba” crooner earned the moniker “Asake” due to his exceptional dancing skills while in high school.

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How Asake started his music career

Asake started doing music professionally in 2015 after he became a backup singer for popular skit maker and entertainer Broda Shaggi. He collaborated with Shaggi to release his 2019 single titled “Star”.

Asake gained recognition in January 2020 following the release of his single “Lady”. The song was produced by Blaque Beats and received a lot of social media attention after it was reposted by top social media celebrities like Sydney Talker , Tunde Ednut , and Broda Shaggi.

He dropped another single in the same 2020 titled “Mr Money”, a freestyle he did with Magicsticks. The song once again received massive attention against Asake’s expectations, eventually becoming one of the top trending songs of the year. The song even earned him the nickname “Mr Money”. Despite “Mr Money”‘s success, it was Asake’s other single “Omo Ope” that endeared him to music boss, Olamide . And this would mark the beginning of great things for the singer.

According to Asake, his friend, Yhemolee , had played one of his songs to Olamide. Olamide later invited him to his house and asked if he would like to join the YBNL family. Asake was unveiled as the latest signee of Olamide’s YBNL record label on February 8, 2022. He and Olamide later did a remix of his song “Omo Ope”.

Asake’s debut album

Following the release of his latest single – “Terminator”, Asake disclosed that his much-anticipated debut studio album titled “Mr Money With the Vibes” will be released on Friday, September 2, 2022.

Asake’s marriage and wedding

As of the time of writing this article, Asake is not married or engaged to anyone. It seems like the hardworking hitmaker is concentrating on building his career and name at this time.

Asake’s wife

According to information gathered by DNB Stories Africa , Asake is yet to be married and currently does not have a wife.

Asake’s girlfriends and baby mama

Asake has not been open about his romantic engagements. As of the time of publishing this post, Asake has not publicly introduced any lady as his girlfriend. Though he eventually may, the 27-year-old singer also does not currently have a baby mama , as of the time of writing.

Asake’s children

As of August 2022, Asake has not fathered any children.

Asake’s net worth

As of 2022, Asake has an estimated net worth of about N80 million.

Asake’s awards and nominations

Asake has earned a couple of awards and nominations within the short time of his music career.

• City People Music Award – Best Collabo for the song “Mon Cheri” – (Won) (2020)
• City People Music Award – Popular Song of the Year – (Won) (2020)
• City People Music Award – Street Music of the Year – (Nominated) (2020)

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Asake Biography And Net Worth (2024 UPDATED)

Asake is a Nigerian superstar singer and songwriter. He was born in the South-Western part of Nigeria, and came into limelight after releasing the song, Lady.

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Asake Biography

Asake whose real name is Ahmed Ololade Asake is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. He was born on the 13th of January (Year of birth isn’t public knowledge yet) and hails from the western region of Nigeria.

Asake Educational Background

He studied Theatre and Performing Arts at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in Osun State.

Asake Career

Asake ventured into music at a very young age and started showcasing his talent on social media with numerous freestyle videos. He came into the limelight when he started acting with Broda Shaggi in Broda Shaggi’s comedy videos but only a few people knew that he was also a singer at the time.

His music career started to take off in December 2019 when Broda Shaggi featured him on his song titled ‘Star’. Asake had his moment and took advantage of it in January 2020 with the release of the song ‘Lady’. The song went viral online and had numerous people including celebrities vibing to it online and also offline.

In the same year, Asake got yet another hit song to his name titled ‘Mr Money’ and that has been his nickname since then.

On the 8th of February, 2022, YBNL Nation boss – Olamide officially welcomed Asake to his record label, YBNL Nation.

Asake Songs

• Omo Ope (feat. Olamide)
• Don’t Hype Me
• Mr Money (Remix) (feat. Zlatan & Peruzzi)
• African Something
• Yawa (Ojahbee feat. Asake)
• Medusa (Oluwadamilola feat. Asake)
• Shanor (Tuzi feat. 1da Banton & Asake)
• Gegeti (DJ Xclusive feat. Asake & Young Jonn)
• Star (Broda Shaggi feat. Asake)

Asake Awards and Recognition

• Mon Cheri won The City People Music Award for Best Collabo of the Year 2020
• Mr Money won the City People Music Award for Popular Song of the Year 2020
• City People Music Awards for Street Music of the Year 2020 Nomination

Asake Social Media

You can connect with Asake on:

• Instagram @AsakeMusic
• Twitter @AsakeMusic
• TikTok @AsakeMusic

Asake Net Worth

Asake is a fast-rising Nigerian singer and songwriter. He is estimated to be net worth over $50,000.

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